Recently, I was helping critique a friend’s romance manuscript and we started discussing infodumps and as-you-know-Bobism. It seems to me that mainstream commercial fiction enables some bad writing habits. Almost all authors have some. For example, I am an inveterate abuser of emdashes and “said bookisms.”

The Turkey City Lexicon is filled with clever names for craft blunders. Which crimes against literature do you regularly commit?

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