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The Secret To The Quickest Edit You Can Do

March 19, 2015 by Sacha Black 94 Comments

There are these awful words that plague me. I call them crutch words.

‘Crutches’ are pesky critters that appear when I’ve lost myself ‘in the zone’ of writing a draft.

They creep like spindly monsters into my work…over and over and over again they fill my stories with irritants. They are a PLAGUE on my prose!

The most frustrating thing about crutches is that they are ‘go to’ words. By that, I mean, I don’t even realise I am using them, they’re just salient in my mind so they repeated throw themselves at my metaphorical stage like school girls at a Take That concert.

But how do you fix them?

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Filed Under: blogging, creative writing, writer, Writing, Writing Tips Tagged With: creative writing, crutch words, edit, editing, ideas, lessons learnt, novel writing, novels, short stories, stories, story writing, wordle, write, writer, writing, writing prompts

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