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An editor once told me to reduce my reliance on ‘to be’ … I sweated over the task, finding it easier said than done. Year later … I find myself offering the same advice to my clients. Action moves our stories forward, so we need our verbs to be as vivid as possible.

Rather than leaving authors out in the cold, struggling to wage war on the beleaguered verb, here are some tips to manage this nit-picky challenge – when to use it and when to lose it. Continue reading The War on Was