Hello everyone! I'm new here, my name is Victoria.
I was wondering when writing is there a word or anything that you over use? Foe example I noticed I use the word "okay" a lot and my stories can tend to get a bit over dramatic.
I use like, right, and seriously a lot. And whenever I am trying to write historic fiction, I inevitably use modern slang that ruins the credibility of my story. But my absolute worse habit when it comes to writing is that I do a lot of telling and not enough showing.
I am not addicted to reading, I can quit as soon as I finish one more chapter.
I abuse water/skies/wings imagery. I also have a rather persistent fixation on eyes and light/dark contrasts. I ramble a lot, and gleefully abuse the comma and semi-colon. Dashes too. There might possibly be a correlation between the rambling and the punctuation abuse. Possibly. Also adjectives. And generally words that end in -y. Sentence fragments too.
Lumi: they stand no chance against the JAG SAFETY BLANKET
This is one little planet in one tiny solar system in a galaxy that’s barely out of its diapers. I’m old, Dean. Very old. So I invite you to contemplate how insignificant I find you.
Too often we crave the extraordinary in life, without even learning how to cherish the ordinary first.
Friend, I promise you this: if you can learn to take joy in the simple mundane things in life, the extraordinary will take care of itself, it'll be on its way, hurrying towards you. But if you skip the first part, it'll ever evade you. — Arcticus
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