Do you ever overuse certain words?

[L1aei]

At least you don't have The Butler (I hope ... otherwise the guy is really bad) making EVERYONE (even the dog) furrow their brows at least twice a chapter as a certain audionovel does...

What is this audionovel you speak of?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

What is this audionovel you speak of?

The Ghostbuster Scam. Fun but has so much of The Butler present it's almost more fun to look for obvious AI moments (character names changing. brows furrowing, everyone breaking out in a cold sweat, etc.)

 

[L1aei]

The Ghostbuster Scam. Fun but has so much of The Butler present it's almost more fun to look for obvious AI moments (character names changing. brows furrowing, everyone breaking out in a cold sweat, etc.)

I'll have to check that out this weekend. Thanks!

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

Sometimes

 

[onehunter]

I overused 'before' terribly. I meant it as a way to move from one action to another: "He did x before moving to y," or, "he said x before his face crumpled." But it doesn't relate the two things; it's like using 'then' all the time. Instead of writing things as cause and effect, I was trying to force a sequence of events into an order without relating them. I still do it sometimes and catch it when editing, but I'm getting better about it.

 

[Worthy39]

Sigh/sighed. I try to force myself to only do that once per chapter, but sometimes more slip through.

 

[rileykifer]

Look. Everyone is always looking at someone or something. Bonus points if it's two characters exchanging looks. I try to spice it up with a glance or a gaze or a stare, but then it just gets obvious I'm avoiding "look."

 

[Anonjohn20]

I may use FUTA too much, but as a trained accountant living in North America, the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act" is something that comes up more often than people think.

 

[Wamba2K]

I have a habit of saying "Then" too much. Like 'then this happened' or 'then I kicked him in the face.' It's so bad.

 

[Anonjohn20]

I have a habit of saying "Then" too much. Like 'then this happened' or 'then I kicked him in the face.' It's so bad.

But then you made *goat noises*! LOL JK

 

[Seaspecter]

Moist, bouncy, squishy, throbbing, and tightly.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

Not necessarily an overuse of a single word. I tend to add "though" at the end of a sentence instead of the beginning, where it actually should be.

Also, I will use some phrases often, and they often seem to become repetitive to me as the writer, though no one has mentioned it to me yet.

sh!t. one *more* thing to watch out for rough drafting. but thanks.
I'm at war with what I call "iteration". When I'm doing editing reading passes, when I notice the same word I go in and try to not use the same word that many times. Not sure what the scien-technical name for this is, a lot of my concepts I have my own words for. I'm tryting to do "more" in rough drafting so I have less to do do in proofing editing passes. My cat is my editor and it lets me get away with murder, lol.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

sh!t. one *more* thing to watch out for rough drafting. but thanks.
I'm at war with what I call "iteration". When I'm doing editing reading passes, when I notice the same word I go in and try to not use the same word that many times. Not sure what the scien-technical name for this is, a lot of my concepts I have my own words for. I'm tryting to do "more" in rough drafting so I have less to do do in proofing editing passes. My cat is my editor and it lets me get away with murder, lol.

the pain is real I tell ya.

 

[Rachel_Leia_Cole]

‘And’ is a big one for me. I try to edit and splice sentences or break them when I can rather than saying he did this and then he did that. But I use a thesaurus to try to avoid repeating too many words. I keep it on my bedside table lol.

 

[Deleted member 34529]

"Then"

 

[FRWriter]

"Though, surprisingly, however, extremely, as well, also."
+ the following verbs
"says, asks, questions, yells, screams, announces, replies, answers."

I suck. I often times sacrifice writing quality for fast releases and an ambitious plot.

The upside: Even most ESLs can enjoy my story without a problem since the English is fairly basic.