@EggKnees @ellen_hawley @bookstodon Gosh, I think there are several other ways to improve the flow of the example sentences the OP posted there! (in the StackExchange thread on removing "that") I'm a #kidswriter and my editors/CEs often suggest adding words to my sentences to make them clearer for young readers. I'm always trying to shave down my wordcount, and "that"'s an easy one to cut.
#MyrtleMondays: QWERTY - Elizabeth C. Bunce

How do you write your term papers? Are you a touch-typist? A proficient thumb-texter? A voice-to-text dictator? Or do you prefer longhand? I’m currently getting used to a new laptop, and it is driving. Me. Crazy. (Grrrrr.) This is a periodic ordeal in the life of a novelist, and it has been going on since... Read more »

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