[Critique Group 1] Marcia's submission You Don't Say 519 words

[Marcia Wick]

You Don’t Say

Marcia J. Wick, The Write Sisters

August 2018

Word Count:  519

 

So, you really, really kind of need to clean up your writing. I ask you to
be willing to try to cut those overused and meaningless words, but where to
begin? 

 

Use a fine tooth comb to eliminate clichés each and every time the light
shines on something like what you could reduce. Take out and remove phrases
that trip up your readers, making for a bumpy and uneven ride.

 

Oftentimes, you can search and find every last one of all the ways that you
use words just like “just,” “like,” and “that,” then delete them a lot. It’s
a pretty good idea to tighten your writing. Virtually everyone’s writing
could benefit from some surgery. I believe that up to as many as you might
think can possibly improve their writing with fewer words. - I am very
certain that currently there are actually more than most believe.

 

In order to start to identify all the unnecessary words, you’ll presently
see gradually and effortlessly how to cut down on the unusually high number
of incredibly useless adverbs cluttering literally every sentence to improve
clarity. Therefore, you’ll suddenly start to see bad repetitions and
redundancies such as can often be found throughout an overly complex annual
report published yearly, a suggested proposal generally intended for future
prospects, or a great overview of the findings and conclusions of an
inclusively and clearly-defined group of collaboratively organized
organizations. As an added bonus, for each and every reader under the stars,
your writing might eventually become completely devoid of unneeded extra
words because of some things you could be doing. 

 

As yet, we won’t know the final outcome until each and every word has been
counted and tallied, and the document is almost completely free of pointless
modifiers and pronouns. As a matter of fact, you can cut from one or every
paragraph. Be sure to make a Duplicate copy of your work before editing and
definitely prior to cutting and pasting. 

 

Because proofing and editing is hard work, you might find you need to take a
long overdue break for a late night midnight snack. It’s the truth,
honestly, that everyone’s writing and yours will improve and get nicer and
better over time. At all times, because of the increasingly high number of
mistakes writers may make on any given day, it is best to tighten, tighten,
tighten your work like a belt when you are dieting.

 

We don’t know as yet whether we’ll succeed. Basically, in order to identify
which words are totally useless, it’s essential to completely go over each
and every word from top to bottom. It’s quite natural to not know where to
begin. You’ll absolutely feel that it’s rather helpful and extremely
important to simply not to use one particular word too often. It’s just
pretty important that you cut and delete each occurrence almost always.
Being that you just don’t need most words, in the process of identifying
what you don’t need, you’ll write what you want at this point. As a matter
of fact, your skills will most likely improve, for all intents and purposes.

 

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