10 Editing Mistakes All Writers Need to Avoid Once and For All

Erase comma splices, stop sounding like a robot, and more.

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I’ll be honest with you. I’m sure you’ve heard some of this information before in other articles, books, and courses.

However, I still see writers making the same mistakes.

How many times have you read a post that gave you valuable information, nodded along to many of the points, only to never apply the tips in your life?

I’ve done it a buttload of times, and I know you have to — so don’t even lie to me. Today, that pattern breaks.

Today, you take this information, use it, and make your writing better. So, let’s begin.

1. Useless repetition

There are two types of repetition. Repetition to bring a point home, and unnecessary duplication that makes you sound a little tiny itty bit like an idiot. See what I did there?

Sometimes we do this with words. For example, “we gathered in a round circle.” It’s like, no shit, Sherlock. Here I thought you gathered in a triangular circle.

Other times, we do this with entire phrases. “I looked around the entire room. My eyes took in everything in the small place.” If you looked around the…