A Writer's Block: Robb Grindstaff

A Writer's Block: Robb Grindstaff

Top ten list: an editor's pet peeves #2

Crutch words -- make every word count

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Robb Grindstaff
Dec 07, 2023
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If you’re following along, this series is in no particular order. They’re just (remember this word, just) the top ten things I catch when editing other writers’ works (and yeah, self-editing my own, as well). They’re in the order I thought of them when I decided to make a list.

Read the first one here, as well as the long intro to the series.

The short in…

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