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Category: Writing Style Outcasts

Writing Style Outcasts: Passive Voice

April 21, 2020 andrewmfriday

You may have heard using the passive voice is “incorrect.” In fiction writing, however, the passive voice can be used. It is not so much

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Writing Style Outcasts: Telling

April 20, 2020 andrewmfriday

Geez, “telling” gets treated like like the weird kid at school, but it’s an important tool in the writing and editing process. Stop harassing it!

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Writing Style Outcasts: Exclamation Marks

April 18, 2020 andrewmfriday

“An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes.” F. Scott Fitzgerald As the author of classics such as The Great Gatsby and This

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Writing Style Outcasts: Adjectives

April 15, 2020 andrewmfriday

Not the cool kids at school. This is a series on the aspects of writing style that are bullied. But they serve a purpose. Yesterday,

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Writing Style Outcasts: Adverbs

April 14, 2020 andrewmfriday

High school cliques appear in most young adult fiction. And in real life. Yes, they are tropes found in 13 Reasons Why, The Hate You

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