Useless Words to Seek Out and Destroy in Your Manuscript

Removing these filler and glue words will tighten your work and make it shine.

Leslie Wibberley
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJul 11, 2019

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I signed up for a course on writing flash fiction during the time I was revising my second novel. I love short stories and thought learning to write flash might help me curb the tendency to overwrite.

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Physiotherapist/Proud mama/happy wife Storyteller, finding magic in the everyday world. Repped by the extraordinary Naomi Davis of Bookends Literary