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Warning: over-used devices can drastically damage your copy

Less is more so they say -whoever they are. That has just been rammed home to me while reading a book by and about a company that I really admire.  I love what they do and am a big, big fan of their copywriting.

However I found one device they use in the book very irritating and that’s only because they’ve used it so often.  By the time I got to the end of page two and had counted ten instances (because that’s the kind of sad person I am) it really began to rankle.

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Hello. I'm Elaine, I'm a copywriter and this is my blog.

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