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Have you ever struggled with writing too many “he said/she said/they said”? These are the alternatives that I swap with in gender-neutral ‘they’ form. When you’re thinking of an alternative to using ‘said’, you have to visualize your character and their emotions as they say it. You could replace ‘said’ with an action, or with their tone. Here are some examples: They spoke –…

Redundancy Q. She liked to go to the annual festival every year. A. She liked to go to the annual festival. Why? Annual festival inherently means every year, so it is redundant to put the two together in the same sentence. It is the same as saying “She liked to go to the every year festival every year”, which wouldn’t quite make a lot…