Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Beginning Writers: Redundancy and other misc tips

Beginning Writers: Redundancy and other misc tips
Watch out for these redundant words:
Stand (up)
Sit (down)
Turned (back)
Needs (to be)
He thought (to himself)
The following are words that you can usually cut from your manuscript. They are too wordy:
Instead
Seemed
That had Been
Suddenly
Words that sometimes trip us up
Lay – to place
Lie – to recline
Quite, quiet, quit (easy words to type wrong)
Affect – is the verb
Effect – is the noun 

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