Let's get rid of DEAD WORDS

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Re: Let's get rid of DEAD WORDS

#16 Post by Applegate »

You mentioned English teachers. That's usually where things go wrong. English teachers teach creative writing, which is a different beast altogether from writing. Using "therefore" instead of "so", and then a synonym of it as much as possible may make your text more "exciting" to read, but I'd be very tired, or should I say, I'd be exhausted by the end of your novel if you did it wherever possible. Sometimes, reading short words is nice.

For everything else, I recommend this:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles ... _Sheet.pdf

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