Episode 204 - Meaningless modifiers and what to cut.
Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 204 - Meaningless modifiers and what to cut.

2026-02-13
Some words don't add anything to a sentence other than confusion.   Here are several modifiers that our story is better without.  Also, is cutting ten percent of our manuscript a good goal when editing?  What should we cut to reach that ten percent? Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes.  The full class—all 20 episodes—is available now...
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