Tag: Pleonasms
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Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Flow & Pace

Welcome back to our series on How To Self-Edit. We’ve already covered: Today we’ll talk about flow and pace, a duo of story elements that influence how excited or bored our audience will be while reading our books. Define Flow and Pace Pace is the speed/tempo at which the story is told. Meanwhile, flow is…
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Easy Self-Editing – Redundancies (Pleonasms)

The first draft of A Study of Ash & Smoke was riddled with redundancies, AKA pleonasms. My editor, Nerine Dorman, took to my debut manuscript with a kill-it-with-fire vehemence and likely mumbled a million curses at the ceiling as she removed them (among other issues) from my very *cough, cough* unpolished novel. I’ve said this…
