Today’s reblog is a helpful reminder of some words that can feel good when you’re in the process of writing, but don’t pull their weight. I know I have my own list of personal “favorites” that I search down and excise from early drafts.
Crutch words are words that add nothing to the meaning of a sentence. They’re hollow words that we automatically insert and frequently don’t notice. We want our writing to be tight and sharp. Too many crutch words will slow down the pace and dull the impact.
An interesting thing about crutch words is that we often have favorites. You may never use some words from the list below and use others more than you want to admit!
Read the rest over at Myths of the Mirror…
Words Deferred 
Thanks so much for sharing the post! Wishing you a wonderful new year. 🙂
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Happy to share. This is one of those bad habits that I catch in my own writing. It’s a quick “writing level-up” – relatively easy to fix, so long as you’re paying attention.
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Exactly. It’s time consuming to search them out, but it makes a big difference.
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