Bad [Advice] From My Writing Past #16: Minimizing the Redundancy of He (2/12/2002)
Question asked by someone in a writing group: Advice needed: When I’m writing and am called to describe a series of actions on behalf of a character, all the while trying to keep the fluency of the story by not using redundancy, I’m faced with a problem. If I’m writing out a series of actions that a character carries out, its virtually impossible not to use the words “he/she, his/her, character’s name” over and over again. The question is this:…