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[louiselux]

I should have typed up more of the Sherlock Holmes meets Crowley story tonight, yet instead I played Thief for an hour. I wrote on the train home though, and on the train this morning.  The thing about writing in longhand is that it results in what manual workers call double handling. A longhand version is even more of a first draft than a typed first draft - more of it changes in the typing up, almost like I'm writing it from scratch.  As it is, Holmes and Crowley are engaged in an exhausting conversation, so I'll leave them there until 7am tomorrow. 

Recently I've seriously cut back on my use of 'really'.  I was just using it too much - I really couldn't write without it, it was really the centre of universe, taking all my time, my money and…

CTRL F for each instance of 'really', because see above. Now I'm down to one really per fic, if that, which is cool. I can manage that. 

Does any one else have this problem - is there a word that takes over your fic?

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[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh! Holmes and Crowley!

And as for word infestations, everyone in my fics used to do things "after a long moment". I don't think anyone's done that for a while, though, although now they tend to do things "suddenly", the impulsive bastards.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Holmes and Crowley are still staring at each other in disbelief. Oh dear.

'Suddenly' appears to be quite a common one. I dread trying to thnk of another way to say it, and also another way to describe a pause. Hmm, perhaps I'll nick your 'after a long moment'. *g*