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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.