Lia Sebastian: What the Hell Is Up with That?

Monday, June 05, 2006

What the Hell Is Up with That?

I mentioned in a previous blog entry that I am going back through The Seventh Sense to cut out junk words. The biggest offender?

That.

I use "that" 450 times, which wouldn't be so bad in a 300-400 page manuscript. Since it's a little over 100 pages, the number of incidents seems a bit excessive. I've brought it down to 175, but I'd still like to cut ~~that~~ this number in half. Looks like I'll be doing that for the next few days . . .

Labels: The Seventh Sense, writing

# Posted by Lia @ | 10:56 PM

2 Comments:

Ouch. That is no fun.
Oops...

By K.A.S., at 8:08 AM, June 06, 2006

Yes. I'm hoping this will make me more aware of these words in the future. It would be nice if I didn't have to do this with the next one.

By Lia, at 11:41 PM, June 09, 2006

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