u/mozartrellasticks

I know this may seem like a hard question cause often times the first dishes that come to mind that the judges loathed are the most outrageous ones. But, not gonna lie, I‘d probably tear up Cutter’s overly sweet red velvet cake just cause I’m a sweet tooth junkie.

I don’t necessarily start every sentence with ‘she isn’t,’ ‘she can’t,’ ‘she wouldn’t,’ ‘she hasn’t,’ or whatever. But, I do worry I heavily overuse the words isn’t, can’t/can, wouldn’t/would, hasn’t/has, doesn’t/does. In some past fanfictions I’ve written I don’t think I have been so excessive with the word usage but for some reason I fear that there’s a way I can overuse them. But I also struggle to find synonyms for them or replace them because they are such common words with the sentence structures I like and it feels impossible not to use them. Like I genuinely don’t know how to work around frequently using those words.

Is overusing those specific words or using them frequently genuinely a big issue and proof that I need better prose or whatever, or are they such common words that there really is no other way to use them and I just have to? Please let me know cause I’m freaking out like genuinely. Is my checking on repetitive word usage in this instance over the top or am I right to be wary

And love also when i feel like i express this to my therapist who is supposed to be specialized in ocd but encourages me to journal anyway :)))