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Here are my final seven mistakes to avoid. I hope this four-part series proved helpful as you strove to deepen and clean up your writing. 1. Mundane Prose. We don’t need to hear the mundane parts of a character’s day, or hear his mundane speech. Example John ate breakfast. He wiped his mouth, then slurped [...]

For those of you who love lists, here’s another list of ten common mistakes I see writers make when they come through The Writing Spa. Check and see if you make these mistakes too. And if you do, choose to make 2010 the year you change the way you write. 1 Starting the story too [...]