Bad [Advice] From My Writing Past #16: Minimizing the Redundancy of He (2/12/2002)

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:…

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The Obligatory Opera House Photo

The Obligatory Opera House Photo

…as requested. More photos from that day to come. Right now, I’m so full of Mexican food that I’m falling asleep as I sit. This photo was taken from the steps leading up to the Queen’s Royal Gardens. Sydney Opera House on the right. Sydney Harbour Bridge on the left. I have much better photos than this, but this is the only one where I can refer to all three places at once. Share this post:

Sydney

Sydney

Drew pointed out that I never posted about the rest of my Australia trip (oops!), so here goes. My next and final stop after Ayers Rock was Sydney. I didn’t post about Sydney right away because I wasn’t very happy with many of my first photos there. My camera had by that time acquired a lot of debris among the various parts, putting in a lot of blurry black squiggly marks on the actual photos themselves. I didn’t even notice…

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The Wall

The Wall

Taken last fall with the ol’ Fujifilm camera. Hope everyone’s having a good Memorial Day. Share this post:

Slack-Jawed Nitwit

Slack-Jawed Nitwit

If you let him, H.E. can go on and on about how beautiful and bright-eyed I look. But he loves me … so is in no way objective. Because—honestly?—half the time, awake or asleep, I look like a slack-jawed nitwit. If I am lost in thought, in a movie, or in a book, my jaw has a tendency to go slack. It simply drops, and my mouth hangs open as I relax. It’s something often seen in kids as they’re…

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