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Week 7: Back Up and Review

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"You want your sentences to live, not to join the living dead."- Helen Sword  (see link from photo)
This quote is from the video "Zombie Nouns," which is a video about normalization. I learned a great deal from this video. I did not know that in creative story writing that something so simple to fix could either make your readers engage in the story, or drift to sleep. Active verbs are important. I did not realize how much I use normalization in my every day writing for marketing. 

I liked this particular graphic because of the colors. It was a plus that I liked what it said too. I think it is a beautiful creative picture.

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