Hack The Flab
I edit.
So I see my fair share of flab.
I know what to look for, but 396-and-counting examples of flab is hard to spot…even for me.
I got tired of flab slipping through my initial hawk-eye edit, so I created a lazy-bastard crutch macro that finds and highlights all the flab.
I’m sharing this list with you (in 10-item chunks). It took me months to compile, so you better appreciate it, dammit!
Flabby words/phrases kill your writing and waste your readers’ time. The following posts explain why certain words and phrases represent flab:
- Hack The Flab #1
- Hack The Flab #2
- Hack The Flab #3
- Hack The Flab #4
- Hack The Flab #5
- Hack The Flab #6
- Hack The Flab #7
- Hack The Flab #8
- Hack The Flab #9
- Hack The Flab #10
- Hack The Flab #11
- Hack The Flab #12
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