I mentioned in a previous blog entry that I am going back through The Seventh Sense to cut out junk words. The biggest offender? Labels: The Seventh Sense, writing
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 . . .
2 Comments:
Ouch. That is no fun.
Oops...
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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.
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Lia, at 11:41 PM, June 09, 2006
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