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Plasibeau :
Watery bowels, vulgar gestures anyone?
2026-09-01 17:50:26
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mildredhubble :
I slightly overuse the worse slightly! only slightly though! 😂
2026-09-01 16:15:38
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Flo💜 :
‘For a moment’ or ‘for a second’ is mine 😂😭😭 DRIVES ME INSANEEEEE cos I write it then go back like damn AGAIN?!
2026-09-03 15:16:53
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lucymorton22 :
On a third edit I finally realised I’m always using “slightly”. Why everything got to be slight?? 😔
2026-09-03 00:11:44
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Manda Cherry :
I have to limit myself to one "notwithstanding" per 50,000 words 😂
2026-09-01 17:27:10
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Loveland Books :
Still and while. 😅
2026-09-05 00:32:25
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Gabby and Lucy :
Sarah J Maas drives me crazy with these. Always does a long list followed by the words “and the like”.
2026-09-02 22:30:38
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DLGxkitty :
I noticed by chapter 3 that I had a lot of repeating phrases or words and it started driving me insane.
2026-09-02 04:16:37
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coffeeaddict123 :
really 😭😭😭 I REALLY use it too often
2026-09-03 13:01:56
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sleepysestra (mari) ⚯ ͛⋆ ִֶָ☾. :
my word walker is "as [adjective] as ever" and i found i used it three times in 6 chapters good lord
2026-09-02 15:35:18
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B.M Whitehead 📚 AuDHD Author :
I overuse herself/yourself/itself and it annoys me when I go back and edit and see it sat there 😂
2026-09-02 19:09:05
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happyquill :
Mine is, of course 😂
2026-09-03 04:00:38
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Esve Escobar 🐉 🇨🇦 :
I do this all the time. English isn’t my first language, and I think it’s an easy way to describe and act right now…. However, I’m aware of it 😞🫠 I hope I can find better rephrasing when I finish my story … ( my phase is : he did that/she says that! ) I also have trouble describing technical things to explain how something works without sounding like a manual haha 😅 any advice? Ex: if you work in a power plant you have to describe the work place and the task the character is doing how I explain without making it boring!!! 😴 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
2026-09-01 15:09:51
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Author Hope Engel :
Mine is “I see that…” before the action or the main character is describing. I need to save it for when the most important action is them noticing the thing, which is almost never!
2026-09-01 18:59:53
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Francia 📚✍️✨ :
During my second draft phase, the number of times I had to delete “however,” “yet,” and “nonetheless” made me want to go back in time and punch myself while I was writing my first draft. 😂
2026-09-02 22:10:23
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aamadisonbooks :
Her heart plummeted 🤦🏽♀️
2026-09-01 14:17:31
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Dan Barker :
Its identifying a flow crutch, huh? (the phrases we use repeatedly to maintain the momentum in the creative phase, without going back and inividualising them).
2026-09-02 02:24:40
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Graham Hughes :
Yes! Made soooo many changes while recording my own audiobook.
2026-09-02 06:27:54
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Christine Witcher | Author :
“Save for the __” and “it was all __ and ___” always jump out at me in books.
2026-09-03 13:53:53
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JW Blink | 📚Author :
So is mine so he did this so they did this
2026-09-01 18:21:03
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Craft and Crefft :
Oh my god! The black witch series - fking hell whole phrases like that - how o got through the series is beyond me - but it was horrendous
2026-09-03 11:58:49
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randiwrites :
Yes, read aloud is key.
2026-09-02 13:12:18
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Aurelia9 :
i love the Licanius trilogy, but "[character] inclined his head" occurs about 9356 times over the three books. 😂
2026-09-01 16:20:26
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