by Zoe M. McCarthy | Aug 20, 2020 | Writing
Zoe’s book, Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days, is a fresh and innovative refocusing of your novel or novella. Through a few simple—and fun—steps, Zoe helps writers take their not-ready-for-publication and/or rejected manuscripts to a spit-polish finish....
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Dec 6, 2018 | Writing
ProWritingAid introduced me to sticky sentences. ProWritingAid says this about sticky sentences, “A sticky sentence is one that is full of glue words.” To me, it’s a special way of looking at wordiness. Sticky (or Glue) Words Glue words are words that the reader has...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Sep 27, 2018 | Writing
In my readings, I’ve noticed many unnecessary occurrences of the word some. I have to ferret out that sneaky word from my drafts. But I don’t delete all of them. Sometimes some is the correct word. Where the word some works. Example > “Did you read all of the...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 11, 2017 | Writing
Circumlocution Writing that expresses something in a roundabout or indirect way, using many unnecessary words. Circumlocution can be understandable or unintelligible. Example A large portion of the class grabbed a goodly number of the assignments, far and beyond what...
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