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Please explain something to me: Every writing advice article/book I've ever read discourages the use of 'that'--it's lazy writing, they say, and agents/publishers won't take your work seriously--and tell you to use 'which' instead, yet in seemingly every piece of fiction I read, all I ever see is 'that', never 'which'. Excuse me, but I believe there's some kind of disconnect going on here.
— Jan 12, 2017 07:10PM
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Jan 13, 2017 03:43PM
I'm with you, girlfriend. I deliberately try to watch myself concerning this particular "no-no", yet I still can't get an agent. And then I read published books with the word "that" thrown around all over the place. Which (ahem) makes me so frustrated. Hee hee.
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I know, I don't get it! I'm so attuned to the issue now, my eye is immediately drawn to every "that" I see, mentally replacing it with "which." As I do so, I continue to wonder why aspiring authors are continually bombarded with the advice to avoid the word when so many published writers use it frequently and with complete impunity. And this isn't a recent issue either, as I can read books from three, four, or more decades ago and run into the same issue! It boggles my feeble little mind. ;D
