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  • Wingiby Iggiby replied to the topic Pet Peeves in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 years, 7 months ago

    @zee

    I totally get it! I do it myself a lot, and so I search the internet for synonyms, which is actually sorta fun 😀 . (I was writing a part describing a staircase and an alcove just off of it, and there are not many synonyms for stairs, LOL it made me nuts to keep saying “stairs” over and over again). Sometimes using a weird word for something can just throw the reader off; but I think doing that would work well for comedy, such as a “woody perennial plant,” in substitute for “tree.” I think I’m just droning on, so, uh, yeah….

    @mischievous-thwapling

    Ahhhh!!! Yes!!! I don’t like “and” and “and” and “and.” Not at all. But have you read “The Places Beyond the Maps” by Douglas Kaine McKelvey in Wingfeather Tales? I don’t think he used “and” over and over again, but the way he ran his sentences together…. wow. It was such a beautiful story, and the way Peterson described it in his introduction, yeah, that’s what I mean.

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