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Contarini's avatar

The list of weasel words, and advice about how to eliminate or mitigate them is PURE GOLD.

Thank you for this.

Brenden O'Donnell's avatar

Amazing practical tips, just like the drafting process described in Refuse to Be Done. Thanks for your craft guidance!!!!

Andrew's avatar

> Exercise #14: Hunting Weasel Words

> (...) probably, but certainly one of the hard parts is that for most of the time

I was like, "Am I supposed to look for weasel words in this article? [confused face]".

~ Random reader

Just food for thought

Leslie Ferguson's avatar

This is so helpful. I’m doing a copy edit of my novel now. The filler and weasel word hunt is next!

Laura's avatar

This is a great post, and I will search for weasel words in my draft.

Any thoughts on the word “had?”