Learning what to do wrong

by Sandra Egger
4th February 2014

At one of music lessons, my teacher surprised me one day by asking me to play all the wrong notes, not to focus on getting it perfect, but to hit that note wrong, and on purpose. When I asked her why, she said that by learning to hit all the wrong notes, I would know what to avoid, that it's easier to avoid what you know than what you don't, and for music this turned out to be true.

The question I want to ask is: what wrong notes/ annoys you concerning the structure of writing?

Personally for me, I can't stand an overuse of the word 'like', as in, 'it was like this' and 'it was like that'.

I think that by learning what we don't like, we discover a little more about our own personal styles :)

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I don't enjoy 'very' either, I feel sometimes that it robs you of a lot of different ways of saying things

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Sandra Egger
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I try to avoid 'that' and 'very', Small words but irritating when repeated and I believe considered to be bad form. Easy to avoid using them.

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Sandra, no problem, my mistake.

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