Daily Writing Style Complaint #1

When it comes to writing, there's a lot of leeway when it comes to the rules.  This all feeds into your own personal writing style.  Anyone can get away with breaking major rules, if they're good enough.  But many of us are not, and many of us make the same errors again and again.

Perhaps errors is too strong a word.  Still, there are certain things many writers do that I'm simply see too often, that weaken the work.  I do these too, but I try to avoid these when I can.

Daily Writing Style Complaint #1

Phrasing.

Overuse of: “When I (blah), I jumped at the chance to (blah).”

or “When (blah), I knew I had to (blah).”

Honestly, I don’t mind the phrase, but it has been used SO MUCH by everyone that I think every dedicated writer should try to use it only when no other word or phrase will do.