Comments on: Get A Clue: You've Got to Stop Over-using This Word https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142948 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:22:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142948 In reply to Amorina Rose.

Thanks, Amorina!

]]> By: Amorina Rose https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142924 Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:14:55 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142924 Awesome post. Loved it and really useful, thank you.

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142859 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:17:30 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142859 In reply to Fae Rowen.

The first book IS published, and I have some wonderful reviews, including a couple from editors. It's the middle book of the trilogy that is benefiting from my improved skills. The first one took fifteen years (I'm very slow, due to chronic illness), and this one should not take more than five - and maybe the final book will be even faster!

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142853 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 04:39:03 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142853 In reply to Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt.

Absolutely. At some point you have to declare your editing, your book, finished. Otherwise, you'll never publish or at best, you'll get that one book published posthumously. Yipes!

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142819 Sat, 05 Oct 2019 08:09:33 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142819 In reply to Fae Rowen.

I catch myself more often than not now - which is why I am a firm proponent of ruthless self-editing - but you can't keep second-guessing yourself as you write; it tends to distract you from flow.

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142793 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:09:10 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142793 In reply to johntshea.

I like that cut-without-replacement idea, John. When I began writing, I tried to be perfect to the verb tense of the situation, but, honestly, the double-had got me pulling out newer grammar texts.

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142792 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:04:34 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142792 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Yep, I've gotta get going so I can get some work done, Jenny!

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142791 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:03:23 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142791 Yipes, Denise! As a math teacher, I'm not sure what a "verbal slap" is, but I hope I never did that to my students. Don't feel guilty about giving encouragement, even if the current favorite wouldn't pass muster with that English teacher!

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142790 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 04:22:28 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142790 I had an English teacher, somewhere along the way, who gave verbal slaps for using get/got instead of tenses from "to have."

I feel guilty every time I say the on-trend phrase: "You got this."

denise

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/10/get-a-clue-youve-got-to-stop-over-using-this-word/#comment-142789 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 04:02:28 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=38353#comment-142789 I am TOTALLY a "getter." Thanks for adding it to my "Margie Find and Replace List." 🙂

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