thread: 2009-01-21 : Italics
On 2009-01-22, Ron Edwards wrote:
My writing-detail habits include way too many instances of "of course." Not so much certainlys and actuallys, I usually delete those as the drafts progress, but the of courses tend to stick and they shouldn't.
The other thing is too many parentheses. I look back over a paragraph and find that the parenthesized sentence or phrase would do just fine in the paragraph without them. I have no idea why I put them in in the first place.
Since none of that is ungrammatical, that means no one catches it except me, and if I don't remember to go after those things specifically, then too many stay.
(Of course!)
