Comments on: Redundant Writing - and How to Exorcise it https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ? Writing Links Round Up 5/6-5/10 – B. Shaun Smith https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-140903 Mon, 13 May 2019 19:05:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-140903 […] Redundant Writing – and How to Exorcise it […]

]]> By: stephanieroath3157 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139957 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:57:17 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139957 This is exactly what I needed to read while I refine my creative writing skills! Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139920 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:49:25 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139920 In reply to dholcomb1.

Exorcise those little demons, Julie!

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139919 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:48:33 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139919 In reply to dholcomb1.

And then the whammy comes when they crit yours....see what I missed in mine, above. Do you know how many times I read that? Doh!

]]> By: Julie Glover https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139916 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 02:05:26 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139916 This post came at a perfect time, Laura! Right when I'm going through the final polish of a novella, and sure enough, I caught these repeats. Thank you!

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139914 Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:52:14 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139914 I try to pick them out. So much easier to find them when I edit for others.

denise

]]> By: Kelly Louise Allen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139913 Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:48:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139913 Love Writer's in The Storm and the wonderful articles. Thank you.​

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139911 Sun, 24 Feb 2019 09:31:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139911 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Great question, Jenny! Okay, if there's snappy dialog (read: one liners), you need one of the names every once in awhile, so the reader doesn't have to go back and to the math.

Sometimes if you mention them alternately in one paragraph, it gets tricky, because 'she' refers to the last name mentioned. So:

Becky knew she (that means Becky) couldn't top Sarah's put-down, so Becky walked away.

It's clunky, so I'd probably rewrite the sentence, but I needed Becky's name the second time, because if I'd just said 'she', it would have referred back to Sarah.

See what I mean?

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139909 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:48:03 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139909 In reply to Virginia.

I agree, Virginia, context is everything! The joke one, it would have been clear from the preceding sentence that it was a joke.

The walk on one, I think it would be stronger, reworded. I drag the clattering contraption...

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/redundancy-in-your-writing-and-how-to-exorcise-it/#comment-139908 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:44:49 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36364#comment-139908 In reply to Ruth Harris.

Stephen King is my HERO, Ruth! Thanks!

]]>