are you having a hard time deleting extraneous occurrences of hard from your work in progress? Or have you found misleading sentences containing hard?
Help is here.
It has been a busy summer for me, and the busyness will continue for a few more weeks.
I was delighted to host several family visits. Dog sitting and cat sitting filled me with laughter and joy. Several trips with family members to a hospital more than three hours away kept me on the road when I’d usually be writing. Oh, and I visited family on separate trips to the same city.
Wait, I’m not finished: I’ll be attending a graduation ceremony for a grandson who lives about nine hours away. Of course, it won’t be an in-and-out visit. I intend to stay for close to a week.
These nuisances are superfluous words or phrases also known as pleonasms. Rather than augment writing, they slow action scenes and increase word count — without adding constructive details.
This quiz, the fortieth in its series, offers ten sentences containing redundancies, and ten suggested solutions.
They are edited examples from books, news media, television shows, and overheard conversations.
… saving a redundancy quiz post for another day while I discuss a practice that has the potential to affect every writer.
Many writers give away digital versions of their books, in the hope that readers will write reviews and/or buy other books they’ve written.
Is this a good idea?