Don’t wade into the digital dating pool uneducated. With tens of millions of people looking for love online, you’ve got to work doubly hard to stand out. Don’t Kill Them With Adjectives
Sift through a dating site, and you’ll find unending lists of adjectives: smart, kind, funny, adventurous, honest, caring... Why not just include uncreative, cliched and boring?
Ditch the list. Make your new mantra that old writing maxim: Show, don’t tell.
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