Top 10 Writing No-No’s
Teacher: Lil Chase, senior editor at Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency
There are many tropes and cliches writers use that immediately turn off an agent or commissioning editor. Some are worse than others and some are personal to that particular editor. Here are a few of the repeat offenders you might want to avoid:
Take a look at your writing, if you see one of these cliches then ask yourself if you really need it. If you don’t, remove it.
Of course, rules are made to be broken. If something works, it works!
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Flavia was born in the first winter of the 80s near Milan.As a child, whe loved summer because didn’t have to go to school and could draw on the balcony table, all day, until dinner time.After completing her artistic studies and then her graphic studies, she worked for many years as a graphic designer, developing...
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