Editing Redundancy
This poster does a clever job of showing (rather than telling) how easily redundancy can slip into our writing.
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250 Ways to Say “Went”
The new and improved “Ways to Say Went” poster. Thanks to a commenter, I’ve upped the total from 200 to 250. Check it out!
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Dialogue Tags: 100 Ways to Say “Said”
Be sure to read my post from yesterday, where I suggested that good writers use few dialogue tags to indicate who is speaking, and when they do, then rely on trusty old “said” and occasionally “asked.”
Still, there’s nothing wrong with mixing it up on occasion — especially when how something is said is particularly important and not sufficiently clear through the dialogue itself. Writers young and old need help sometimes with alternatives to “said,” so I created an official WriteAtHome list of dialogue tags.
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