Words I want to ban myself from ever using again in my fiction, by Ceridwen Dovey

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Words I want to ban myself from ever using again in my fiction:

Unfurled (once you start looking for this one, you will notice it in every piece of literary fiction published in the last 50 years)

Moist

Litany

Embedded

Lozenge

Also:

Lodged/dislodged

Limp

Myriad

Mosaic

Lilt

Flared

Shards

Desiccating

Luscious

Teem

Cluster

A friend of mine who is also a writer recently received an email from a reader who had counted the number of times the word "had" appeared in his novel and told him he was a "had abuser." This is not a word I'm worried about trying to avoid.

Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin, Penguin, Penguin Books