Forum: Writers


Subject: Cutting the fat - about trimming those excess words

dialyn opened this issue on Feb 17, 2004 ยท 11 posts


lavender posted Mon, 29 March 2004 at 8:15 AM

As long as you leave out the "invariably" I'm happy. :) I think maybe underwriters are less common than overwriters, but I've certainly run into both. And even with underwritten prose, just about every writer has a list of little weasley words that sneak in there when they aren't looking. "Well" is top of my list. Just because I overuse it, doesn't mean my characters will all talk like that. Bleh! I usually end out taking out at least two or three per page.