This is a series of articles from my blog regarding types of words that aren't needed in your writing. In each article, I describe the type of word or phrase and show how to tighten your writing by taking it out.
Part 1 - adverbs
Part 2 - "there was/there is"
Part 3 - "stood there/sat there"
Part 4 - multiple prepositions in a row
Part 5 - "that"
Part 6 - redundancies
Part 7 - small movements
Part 8 - "in order to"
Part 9 - dialogue tags
Part 10 - "was"
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