Necro-Romancer

Heaven, if this was Heaven, wasn’t anything like Francis had expected. There were no clouds. There was no shining, golden light. And the only creatures that could be counted as angels floated silently to his side, their mechanical heads down in what he could only assume was prayer. And before him stretched what he could only conceive as the very definition of the word ‘infinity’: a confusing and awe inspiring mess of dark and light, of matter and space, superimposed with the light of a billion blazing suns shining like pinpricks through the blind eternities. Francis shivered. Or, at least, he thought he did, because when he

Have you ever thought about how redundantly we speak in every day conversation? Sometimes this passes into our writing. For graduates especially, we are unfortunately trained to add extra "padding" into our text to reach a desired word count. Word redundancies (known as pleonasms and sometimes given the nickname of "baby puppies") are one such way. Here is a list highlighting such phrases--avoid using these at all costs:advance warningalter or changeassemble togetherbasic fundamentalscollect togetherconsensus of opinioncontributing factordollar amounteach and everyend resultexactly identicalfew in numberfree and cleargrateful thanksgreat majo