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writing redundancies

Breaking Common Bad Habits in Writing

By Tia Hilts

March 29, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Breaking Common Bad Habits in Writing

As I sat at my laptop describing the events my imagination had concocted, I noticed an unfortunate problem. I was a mediocre writer. My prose suffered from several bad writing habits. After climbing out of the pit of despair with a renewed sense of determination, I decided to break them.

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