Posts Tagged Alternatives for ‘good’
28 Boring Words and What to Use Instead
Posted by Sally Jenkins in Resources, Writing on September 5, 2017
When I’m working on the first draft of something, I go for speed. There’s no time to ponder the best word – I just want to get to the end of the story before I forget what’s supposed to happen next!
However, as I work my way back through the manuscript, editing and re-writing, I realise that I’ve used the same words over and over again. This is not good and I have to start thinking of alternatives. That’s when an infograhic like the one below comes in useful and gets the grey cells checking out other suitable words.
(By the way I’ve previously posted about 200 Powerful Words to Use Instead of Good and 128 Words to Use Instead of Very.)
The below infographic kindly supplied by Donna Norton of Custom Writing.
50 Word Story Competition
Posted by Sally Jenkins in Competitions, Resources, Short Story on November 12, 2016
If the 50,000 word marathon of NaNoWriMo is too much for you, have a go at this 50 word story competition organised by Just Write.
It’s free to enter and an open theme but the story must be exactly 50 words – not as easy as it sounds!
There are prizes of books and ‘literary goodies’ plus the winner will be published on tyjustwrite.com.
Closing date is 30th November 2016 and entry is by email or post.
This competition could be a useful exercise in focusing the mind and creating an elevator pitch for your NaNoWriMo work-in-progress.
Also, there was a wordpress glitch when I published my last post and I don’t think notification emails were sent out. In case you missed it, it was 200 Powerful Words to Use Instead of Good .
200 Powerful Words to Use Instead of Good
Posted by Sally Jenkins in Resources on November 3, 2016
A couple of weeks ago I re-blogged a post from Kobo Writing Life giving 128 alternatives for the word ‘very’. Today, I have 200 alternatives for the word ‘good’ – so dip in and add some zing to your writing.
The infographic below is reproduced with the kind permission of http://custom-writing.org/blog.
![200 Powerful Words to Use Instead of “Good” [Infographic]](https://i0.wp.com/custom-writing.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/custom-writing.org/2016/10/words-instead-of-good.png)
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