Writerisms and other Sins

You might feel comfortable enough to call yourself a writer, but that might also mean that you’re subject to what C.J. Cherryh calls “writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.”

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