It all starts with cleaning up the misused or overused words. Besides the fact that a heroine should not glance, roll her eyes, glare, and just, just, actually shimmer and scowl every other paragraph for the whole dang book,
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it always trowels up rotten potatoes.
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A rotten potato is what I call a mistake I overlooked. It usually hides behind run-on sentences and prepositional phrases. Very annoying.
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This is all tedious work, but it must be done. Pop over to
Just About Write if you need help with this one too.
Published on June 25, 2011 06:30