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Writers! Stop Repeating Yourself When You Write. Don’t Say the Same Thing Over and Over.

I repeat — don’t repeat yourself.

Lots of puppies are wonderful. Lots of sentences that say the same thing aren’t. (Photo by Bharathi Kannan on Unsplash)

Edna St. Vincent Millay once observed that life isn’t one damn thing after another — it’s “one damn thing over and over.”

Some writers (not Edna!) apparently apply this principle to writing. They seem to believe that if something is worth saying, it’s worth saying many times, often in the same paragraph.

They’re wrong.

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