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 #WritersCoffeeClub 15: Which conjunctions do you use the most? Does it matter?

I don't know, and I've never really paid attention. As long as the sentence makes sense and flows well enough, I don't really care.

People say that 'said' vanishes into the text; so do most conjunctions. The words you SHOULD be looking out for are like the one I heard in an audiobook this morning: the author used the word 'stand' some six times in three or four sentences. No amount of 'and' is as jarring as that.