Can you get every word right in a whole damn book? Can you? Of course you can uphold standards of precision, clarity, and accuracy in a sentence. Or a page. Or a poem. Or a piece of flash fiction if there’s a $1,000 prize involved. Or a speech at a wedding. Or a cover letter…
Tag: Visual Thesaurus
Crush the Crutches
By Mark Stevens Do you have “crutch” words? Words you inject into your prose without thinking? I mean, they are such great freaking words that you when you ask a reader to plow through your latest incredible best-selling novel, she comes back and says: “Well, not bad. But did you know you used the word…