Episode 59 - Patricia Lockwood
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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How to Avoid Bad Writing Habits
I always think I was more direct. Back then. Yeah, you got to cut that shit. Just hack it off. Do you cut it off? Because you have a lot of flowers. It's like Hemingway dictum that we have to be writing in these like these beats that are just stripped of all of our adjectives and especially adverbs. A lot of times in English language books, like the locus of the humor is in the adverb at the end of the dialogue tag,. particularly with British and Canadian writers. And I also resist the whole idea that your title should be as serious as the grave every time. You're going to prove me wrong. No,
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