In Part 12 of her Editing 101 series, Susan Uttendorfsky covers directional redundancies and impossible actions. Do we stand up or do we stand? Do we throw our eyes across the room or do we throw someone a scathing glance? Hop over to The Story Reading Ape to read this enlightening post . . .
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others.
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Directions and Impossibilities
Welcome to today’s article! I hope you’re keeping busy and life is not getting in the way of your writing schedule too much.
We’re going to talk about two short items today. The first is directional redundancies. It’s a big term, isn’t it? It was covered briefly in EDITING 101: 01, Redundancies, but I wanted to go a little further with it. In the previous article, one of the examples was “Her tears ran down her cheeks,” and I pointed out that tears can only run in one direction, can’t they? When was the last time you ever saw somebody’s tears run up their cheeks? (Perhaps if they were hanging upside down on a jungle gym, but…
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Thanks for spreading Susan’s Editing Tips Tina XXX
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Welcome, Chris XXX
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My eyes danced all over this post T! LOLOL :)xoxo
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Glad to see your sense of humor is still intact, Deb. Did you drink that whole bottle by yourself lol? My eyes tripped the light fantastic just thinking about it 🙂 ❤
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LOLLLLLLL. I didn’t drink anything. . . sadly. No fun drinking alone. You crack me up! Good for the soul. xoxoxo
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