Her face was quizzical as she considered writing about facial expressions.
Overwriting: writing too many words, wasting words, writing words, words and more words
Overwriting bores the reader, so don’t do it.
Adjectives: avoid them
Adjectives are best avoided: add nuance with a better choice of noun or phrase.
Adverbs: avoid them
Judicious use of adverbs is much more effective than scattering them liberally.
Filter words: how to remove the reader from the character’s head
Filter words remove the reader from the narrative, bringing them out of the world you’ve invented and back to the fact that they’re reading a book. Find out what these words are and how to remove them.