Tightening our Prose: Too Much Information! – Story Empire

JANUARY 29, 2024 / D. WALLACE PEACH

Greetings, Storytellers. Diana here today with a final tip on tightening our prose. The goal of tightening is to improve our stories’ pace and keep our readers immersed in our books. I hope you’re feeling inspired.

We’ve explored Filter Words, Dialog Tags, Redundancy, and Lists. Today we’re tackling:

• Filter Words
• Dialog Tags
• Redundancy
• Lists
• TMI – “Too Much Information!”

Too Much Information

Have you ever read a book where you find yourself skimming and, despite missing whole paragraphs of text, you still know what’s going on? That may be because the author is sharing “too much information!”

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