- Adverb overuse
- Unnecessary descriptions of what's going on
- "Talking heads"
- Noun-pronoun agreement (yes, I'm guilty of using "they" and "their" when I shouldn't)
- Long sentences (sometimes I ramble)
- Repetition
- Rough scene transitions
- Cliches
- Things I think are funny that actually aren't
- Too many line breaks (to show a change in scene, passage of time, etc.)
02 March 2010
10 on Tuesday: things I usually have to edit in my writing
In honor of National Novel Editing Month, I present the following:
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I would like to add the over-use of the word "that". I do it myself all the time.
ReplyDeleteYou don't seem to have this bad habit. Notice on your previous post, you could have said: "Just as NaNoEdMo, shows writers that they have the time..."
Well, maybe it sounds picky, but I always try to go through what I have written and just see if I can delete all the "thats" I put in.
Sometimes I overuse "that," as well. But it's something I try to be aware of as I write.
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