Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Self Editing Tip

One thing authors can do to self edit is to go through the text and eliminate troublesome words.

Here is a list of words that tend to be overused:

  1. down
  2. up
  3. out
  4. then
  5. began
  6. felt
  7. back
  8. suddenly
  9. could
  10. would
  11. was
  12. that
  13. just

Find and replace these weak verbs with action verbs.

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