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<blockquote data-quote="Omand" data-source="post: 9614518" data-attributes="member: 14344">No need to apologize.&nbsp; You asked for feedback and I provided.&nbsp; As [USER=11760]@Whizbang Dustyboots[/USER] already stated, this is a common error/practice.I don't know if this will help out, but I had a university professor once who gave me very valuable advice for writing.&nbsp; When you are writing something and then do an editing pass, really pay attention to how you feel about the writing.&nbsp; If you feel that this is a very &quot;precious&quot; or very pithy piece of writing that no one could ever top, that is your ego talking.&nbsp; You need to ruthlessly edit those types of phrases out of your work, as usually only you will see them as great.&nbsp; Spare prose is almost always better than going overboard.Have I mastered this practice yet?&nbsp; Not quite, but it has served in good stead over the years and I continue to try to improve.Cheers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Omand, post: 9614518, member: 14344"] No need to apologize. You asked for feedback and I provided. As [USER=11760]@Whizbang Dustyboots[/USER] already stated, this is a common error/practice. I don't know if this will help out, but I had a university professor once who gave me very valuable advice for writing. When you are writing something and then do an editing pass, really pay attention to how you feel about the writing. If you feel that this is a very "precious" or very pithy piece of writing that no one could ever top, that is your ego talking. You need to ruthlessly edit those types of phrases out of your work, as usually only you will see them as great. Spare prose is almost always better than going overboard. Have I mastered this practice yet? Not quite, but it has served in good stead over the years and I continue to try to improve. Cheers :) [/QUOTE]

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