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Talena Winters 3/20/23 Talena Winters 3/20/23

Make It Count: Weed Out Crutch Words for Stronger Fiction Writing

Crutch words are filler words that, if they were removed, wouldn’t affect the meaning of a sentence at all—and might actually improve it. Learn to spot common culprits in this post.

Talena Winters 5/15/19 Talena Winters 5/15/19

Going Deep: How Deep POV Hooks Your Reader

Deep POV is immersing ourselves so deeply into the character’s head that we forget we’re reading about someone else. But how do you do that?