Friday, November 6, 2009

You Had Me at Had

I love my crit group.

I am a "hadder." Had, had been, had said, had had had. I also overuse "really," "just," and "though." Along with others, I'm sure.

They are literally invisible to me. When I'm reading my own work, I don't even see them. But my crit group is finding them, and taking them out, and it sounds so much better when they're gone!!!

My beginning is also A LOT stronger now. I actually have hopes that I'm going to get requests for fulls based on my partial now.

Yay!!!

3 comments:

  1. Cool. I'm big on "had" too, but pretty good on sniffing them out by the 3rd, 4th, 5th drafts... Even after twelve (!) go-throughs, however, I still found stuff. That's why a crit group or -- better yet -- an effing editor is helpful.

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