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That may be so, but if you're hoping to pedal your fiction to an agent or a literary journal anytime soon, be sure to have a look at this list of plots, story-lines, techniques and situations we often see over-used or poorly executed at the Hayden's Ferry Review.

Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Delia Lloyd 2011

That may be so, but if you're hoping to pedal your fiction to an agent or a literary journal anytime soon, be sure to have a look at this list of plots, story-lines, techniques and situations we often see over-used or poorly executed at the Hayden's Ferry Review.

Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Delia Lloyd 2011

Those of you who found the unrelenting racial epithets over-the-top and over-used have never spent much time in a blue-collar, shuttered-factory, European immigrant neighborhood populated by ethnic minorities and a few old die-hards.

“Gran Torino” movie review » Scene-Stealers 2009

Well, let's talk about this grossly over-used word "innovation."

Randy Olson: Creating Excellence Versus Fostering it Randy Olson 2011

An editor will also look for clichéd phrases, over-used words and the overall organization of the story.

Defining the Role of an Editor « Write Anything 2009

‘Be eco chic’ and ‘green is the new black’ may have been over-used mantras of 2008, but we all know now that sustainable style can be synonymous with sexy, must-have fashion that looks and feels totally fab.

Abigail Doan | Inhabitat 2009

Try to let the birds sound off by themselves at daybreak, locator calls are the most over-used call in the woods.

i been hunting for turkey for 5 years and i kill one last year and does any one have a few tips for me 2009

This whole “great writers must suffer more for their art” is an old, and frankly over-used, canard.

Our Books, Warts and All at SF Novelists 2009

Try to let the birds sound off by themselves at daybreak, locator calls are the most over-used call in the woods.

i been hunting for turkey for 5 years and i kill one last year and does any one have a few tips for me 2009

Well, let's talk about this grossly over-used word "innovation."

Randy Olson: Creating Excellence Versus Fostering it Randy Olson 2011