Yesterday I promised to post a list of words we volunteered as our crutch words. The day got ahead of me so I'm a few hours late and butting into the usual Friday posting. My apologies. The list is long. I tried to find duplicates, but I might have missed a few. I will say I had to cut "just" and "then" off of most submissions. We all are certainly guilty of using many of the same words. So, here's the list to date. Copy it if it is of help. Thank God there is a "Find" and "Replace" function in our word processors. Happy writing!
look
think
away
make
turned
start/started
stopped
watched
move
really
window
step
seem
very
brief
understand
smile
stared
interrupt
headed
nodded
shook
ignore
grin
shrugged
glance
glare
scanned
studied
flipped
then
almost
nearly
always
really
sure
realized
grin
stare
glance
look
towards
against
moved
especially
especially
first
look(ed)
and
it
laughed
turned
OMG
after
headed
felt
knew
remembering
so
realized
really
just
thought
since
very
but
towards
that
as
so
now
yet
had
against
here
where
there
which
this
suddenly
small
further
beneath
under
with
almost
even
seem(ed)
in
out
over
up
down
finally
felt
listened
watched
saw
heard
realized
understood
wondered
thought
as if
just as
6 comments:
Great list Barbie. I agree....thank god for find and replace!
Hey, Kari. It's actually Cassy here. I jumped ahead of Barbie. I know she'll be "on" soon. You are right. Without fin and replace we'd all be dead.
I have guests for dinner, but will check back later.
Well, the fingers are going too quickly. It's find and replace versus the fish version of fin and replace. But, I know you all read what I meant rather than what I wrote.
That's some long list.
I don't know, I kind of like fin and replace.
A good list to check writing against. Basically, is another one.
Ann
I recognize some of these as ones that I should have posted in my comment yesterday. Ugh, there are some I probably need to check before I send this second book proof back.
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