After editing 751,000+ words this year, here's the most common description mistakes I see new writers make.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Over-relying on sight
04:43 - Not filtering through the narrator
09:36 - Using your first ideas
10:30 - Disconnected descriptions
15:26 - Repetitive sentence lengths
17:08 - Starting sentences with the same words
18:23 - Overly abstract descriptions
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