Microsurgery for your Manuscript – Part 2

On Monday, I talked about reading out loud to help you fine tune your manuscript. As I mentioned, you’ll catch things your eye never sees because it’s seen all those words for months. Today, I’ll continue with my last step before sending my manuscript to my editor.

Run it through SmartEdit
After getting rid of the obvious, I paste the entire document into my SmartEdit program and let it show me my frequently used words and phrases. This is also a good time to catch more of those distancing,...