Quick Edits: Don’t Blink

Quick Edits is a short feature where I give quick editing advice on how to handle common problems in fiction writing. Don’t Blink We’ve all read it. Some of us have probably written it. Some surprising thing happens. And, in response, a character blinks. This is a problem. Why? Because blinking is not an indicator of surprise. If it were, we would be indicating surprise more than twenty five thousand times in a day. Blinking is a mostly involuntary bodily action. It happens all the time. In f...