“Pick a different word,” she wrote
“This word appears 44 times in this manuscript.
Use your thesaurus.”
So I change pain to anguish or misery
Substitute torment for suffering
Replace anger with outrage
Switch adore for love
Editing is about changing
yet saying the same
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De Jackson is calling for some change dVerse Poets Pubfor the first Quadrille Monday of the year at . With editing on my mind—having just yesterday finished addressing my freelance editor’s comments to my memoir manuscript—I thought this was a perfect Quadrille word. Head on over to dVerse to see what other changes are happening.