Cut The Fat; Make Your Writing Lean: #Tip 08.

We writers enjoy sharing ideas to improve our craft. So, let’s chop the fat from our writing. Make it lean and trim. Readers will thank us.

In this series, I’ll look at some common redundancies.

But, reading this post and nodding wisely in agreement won’t cut it. We have to stay alert to those extraneous words that sneak into text, or they’ll slide in when we’re not looking. Including this as part of our editing process should catch most offenders.

Absolutely necessary:

‘Absolutely’ is absol...