Avoiding the first-person repetition trap

Hey Reader, If you’re writing in first person, you might have come across a repetition problem that is particularly hard to avoid: The I pronoun comes up a lot. That’s not inherently bad: like the speech tag ‘said/says’, ‘I’ is, in many cases, practically invisible to the reader. But it can start to jar when consecutive sentences begin the same way. Sentences like these: I enter the crowded restaurant, nervously tugging on my T-shirt. I spot her immediately. I change the subject. ‘I have to...