Dear Geist,
I always speak up in my online writing workshop when someone talks about “flushing out” a scene or a character. It’s
thumbs-up on flesh/flush. I need some backup.
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Dear Happy,
Technically you’re right. To flesh out is to add substance – flesh to bone, for example. To flush out is to clean something out with water or to force something out into the open. But is your campaign worth alienating your writing community? Choose your battles.
—The Editors