How to seek and destroy filter words with Scrivener

Chris Rosser
7 min readJun 26, 2021

Filter words dig into prose like ticks on a sheep’s back. When I draft, I don’t even realise I’m using them — and I suspect many authors are the same. Come revision time, and they are one of the first things I look for with the aim of rewriting them out of existence.

What are filter words?

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Chris Rosser

Technical writer and occasional author sharing thoughts on creativity, productivity and technology. Works at Canva. https://chrisrosser.substack.com