This is a piece previously posted by Robbie Blair that contains useful information that I want to share with you. Since I’m in the process of doing my final edit on Princess Adele’s Dragon I found this article helped me. Maybe it can help you also. Have a blessed week. Shirley
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Creating powerful prose requires killing off the words, phrases, and sentences that gum up your text. While a critical eye and good judgment are key in this process, some terms almost always get in the way. Here are eight words or phrases that should be hunted down in your story and deleted with extreme prejudice.
“Suddenly”
“Sudden” means quickly and without warning, but using the word “suddenly” both slows down the action and warns your reader. Do you know what’s more effective for creating the sense of the sudden? Just saying what happens.
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I confess I’m guilty of all of these words but ‘sudden’. And I know they are bad, but they keep shwing up in my first drafts. Lots and lots of them. Taking them out the MS is half the job of the first revision.
Very helpful list 🙂
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Just going to edit all my books, -hangs head in shame- over use of the word suddenly. Great post thank you.
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LOL – I’ve had quite a few overnight emails from authors about their sudden urge to re-edit Adele 😀
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Thanks, Shirley and Chris, for this helpful information. I added the ones I didn’t have to my list I keep for editing Useful 🙂 — Suzanne
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😀
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I’m afraid I use all of these words in my posts regularly. I got to the end of the article and suddenly I was wondering if I really should have started reading it, even though it was very informative. Then I realized that it might, like, improve my writing.
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LOLOL
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True, eh? I try to keep all those words out of my stories, but my posts… oh, man… éè
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😀 😀 😀
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I think it might be next to impossible, at least for me. 🙂
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