: Re: How can I trim my word count and still be proud of what I've written? I am a new writer. My work is focused on real people. I ask a series of questions and go from there. Its all about

Honestly, some solid advice that applies to everyone is just cut down on any unnecessary adjectives/adverbs if it's a work of fiction. If it's an non-fiction piece, try taking out certain phrases and see if you can replace them with one word that gives off the same basic definition.

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: Using spoonerism for a non-humoristic purpose I found this interesting figure of speech called spoonerism. Here's the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism Now, I have been wondering if

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: Translating a rendering in Greek of a word/term/name in a different language into English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias So I was reading this article on Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias,

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: Combining an idiom with a metonymy I am not sure if this is possible. I would like to use a metonymy with an idiom, and it doesn't seem to be something people ever did, so it feels wrong.

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: How do we distinguish someone talking to another person via telepathy rather than via vocal means? In my sci-fi novel, some people have the ability to talk via telepathy so how do we distinguish

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: Using spoonerism for a non-humoristic purpose I found this interesting figure of speech called spoonerism. Here's the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism Now, I have been wondering if

: Translating a rendering in Greek of a word/term/name in a different language into English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias So I was reading this article on Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias,

: Combining an idiom with a metonymy I am not sure if this is possible. I would like to use a metonymy with an idiom, and it doesn't seem to be something people ever did, so it feels wrong.

: How do we distinguish someone talking to another person via telepathy rather than via vocal means? In my sci-fi novel, some people have the ability to talk via telepathy so how do we distinguish

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