Q

Joined June 2021

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Hi! I'm Q, and I'm writing a book. Here to flex my writing muscle in different ways and see what stories I can come up with.

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"Other Words for Said" and How To Use Them
These lists are great for helping us build our vocabulary and learning the different ways someone might speak, but if you’re using this list to add variety to your dialogue tags, it could be detrimental to your writing. In the same way that misusing words is a sign of new writer, misusing or using too many different dialogue tags will often signal to a reader that the writer is a novice—even if you’ve been writing for years.
By Q4 years ago in Lifehack
How to Use a Thesaurus to Level-Up Your Writing
How many times have you been writing and suddenly stopped to look up a word? Like, you’re in the flow of the story, and then you realize you’ve used the word “smiled” twelve times so far. The easiest thing to do is go to the thesaurus, look up synonyms, and replace your “smiled” with something else.
By Q4 years ago in Lifehack