The Problem with -ING Verbs (if You’re a Fiction Writer)

This edit will immediately elevate your writing.

Shaunta Grimes
The Write Brain
Published in
4 min readApr 24, 2024

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As a writing teacher and an editor, I spend an inordinate amount of time changing verbs that end in -ing to regular past or present tense verbs. Hell. I spend a lot of time making that change in my own writing.

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Shaunta Grimes
The Write Brain

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