These 5 Words Make Your Writing Look Amateurish
And four more styles professional writers avoid
Moist. Is fine when it describes eyes or lips.
Any other part of the anatomy and my shoulders hunch together as if someone took a straw and blew a blast of moist air onto the back of my neck.
We all have words we recoil from —
Dirge. Phlegm. Renal. Flaccid.
For some, it will be an expletive, the one that makes you screw up your face like the devil just farted in your mouth.
But, they aren’t the worst.
Some words do more damage to the writer’s reputation. Nothing words. These words are so innocuous that they slip in like a Trojan horse, but what’s inside can be deadly.
Yet, they are unremarkable words.
- Things
- Good
- Very
- Great
- Really
These words are bland and meaningless to your reader. You might as well try to shave a gorilla and ask it to dance the Charleston, as use these to impress your reader with your vocabulary.
You won’t find these words in well-crafted content. Creative writers avoid them because they are insipid, drab, dross.
