C. R. Collins on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub Mar 16 What word or phrase do you tend to overuse? My editing ...
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 16
What word or phrase do you tend to overuse?
My editing spreadsheet has words for me to search and delete or replace. These are fillers like "well," "just," or "so" but also useful words like "was," "were," or "but" that might appear too often within the same paragraph. Also "I" -- the bane of first person narration. One of my final steps before the copyedit is going through the sheet, searching for each word, & revising. Tedious, but helpful.
What word or phrase do you tend to overuse?
My editing spreadsheet has words for me to search and delete or replace. These are fillers like "well," "just," or "so" but also useful words like "was," "were," or "but" that might appear too often within the same paragraph. Also "I" -- the bane of first person narration. One of my final steps before the copyedit is going through the sheet, searching for each word, & revising. Tedious, but helpful.