pub resource - blog post - overwriting advice

[drusillas_rain]

One of the publishing blogs I read had a really interesting post about "overwriting" - the tendency to string together as many adjectives, adverbs, and "replacement" nouns as possible, among other things.

The blogger is an editor, so the post is written from their perspective of having to edit a promising manuscript, and shares tips on how to identify if you're an overwriter, as well as a list of words that scream out "overwriter".

http://editorialass.blogspot.com/2009/01/overwriters-anonymous.html


One of the bad words on the list is "sudden (suddenly)" and I know I succumb to that one. I think I need to find some resources on how to deal with that better...

Comments

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

One of my high school English teachers was really hard on overuse of "suddenly" so I at least am aware of that one. I should go search through my fics and see if I have been using it anyway... :\

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

I only had 1 highschool teacher who cared about writing (he was a published poet himself), but he never really shared any tips with our class :(