And just for fun.... what's YOUR current "crutch word"? In one of my early novels, a friend of mine who had volunteered to do the beta-read pass told me in a somewhat aggrieved manner that (a) she had never met ANY other writer who used the word "preternatural" so often, and (b) that it was exceedingly annoying to note that it was the precisely correct word of choice on every occasion that it appeared...
Ten Mistakes
And just for fun.... what's YOUR current "crutch word"? In one of my early novels, a friend of mine who had volunteered to do the beta-read pass told me in a somewhat aggrieved manner that (a) she had never met ANY other writer who used the word "preternatural" so often, and (b) that it was exceedingly annoying to note that it was the precisely correct word of choice on every occasion that it appeared...
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Month of Museums #14, the coda: The Things She Carried
A human being is born an empty vessel, waiting to be filled – with love, with hate, with prejudice, with awe, with disgust, with pleasure, with pain,…
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Month of Museums #13: Tellers of Tales and the Immortal Protagonists
(This is PART 2 of a two-parter entry; read Part 1 here) Perhaps it is just an occupational hazard, but going into a house where a writer has…
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Month of Museums #12: Other Times, Other People
Time does not stand still. Sometimes, on those rare occasions when you can make yourself hold your breath for long enough, you can feel it flowing…
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