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EPISODE · Jun 6, 2022 · 27 MIN

Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.

from Essential Guide to Writing a Novel · host James Thayer

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Many adjective and adverb s do nothing but pad a sentence, making the sentence rickety. Here are some techniques on avoiding these useless or unintentionally funny modifiers. Plus, some words are just too much. We'll avoid these, too. Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more. Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes. The full class—all 20...

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