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I came across this great slideshow by Patrick McLean on Slideshare (many thanks to Laura for the tip!)
As a big part of writing and, particularly, editing is removing redundant words, I thought you’d enjoy it as much as I did!
How to Kill a Word
01 Tuesday Sep 2020
Posted in Writing
Nicholas C. Rossis 
This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing. I’m sure I need to kill loads of words!
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For added impact, try screaming “die! Die!” as you delete them. Just try not to do it in public.
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog.
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Now I am paranoid about the fact that I obviously use too many words!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here 😀
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I thought about using this for my writing process course in the editing module of the course, but I finally decided against it. Gun violence and killing, even metaphorical, is too much of a risk. Maybe I’ll reconsider when/if our culture becomes more sane than it is now.
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Hadn’t thought of it this way! That’s sad 😦
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It’s very sad to have to think this way.
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Fantastic, Nicholas! Thank you for sharing!
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So glad you enjoyed it, Jan! Thank you 😀
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Love this! (I’d like to send this to some of my editing clients and use it as my defense.)
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Lol – I know what you mean 😀
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Thats a great idea. Thank you for sharing this, Nicholas.
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Thanks! Hope it helps 🙂
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I am sure. My knowledge is getter better and better too.
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“Sometimes you get to kill all of the words.” I laughed so hard.
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He was very good 🙂
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Reblogged this on Englishtutorialedu.com. 😊
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