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How do I avoid being wordy? Do you know of any exercises or something similar to help with that? I feel, when reading my own writing, that I use "expensive" language, as we say in Portuguese, wa...
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System
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2019-12-08T07:15:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
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shieldedtulip
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2019-12-08T07:15:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
How do I avoid being wordy? Do you know of any exercises or something similar to help with that? I feel, when reading my own writing, that I use "expensive" language, as we say in Portuguese, way too often. I don't seem to be able to use colloquial speech when writing tending to just put down the first expressions that come to my mind, which is much too often too... well, it sounds snobbish. How do I break that bad habit? Maybe I should worry about this at the time of editing?
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System
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2017-10-31T15:04:20Z (about 7 years ago)
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