Shakes head! Finally working on "The Courier" again. Remember I working on cutting passive sentences by cutting way back on was's. I thought I recalled being on chapter 4 but when I opened it I was back on one.
So I worked my way through to almost all the way through chapter two. Did away with 50+ was's. And I redid some other sentences making them more pro-ish or so I hope. I am leaving some. You need was-s in some sentences and there are too many-originally over 935-for me to change. I am getting rid of some that are very close. In the same sentence or over three sentences.
As I implied I also redoing some sentences that do not have was-s. A couple read way too amateurish and hopefully now are more readable .
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A PS to my last update
Got rid of more Was-s this morning but I also had to redo the pronouns in one section. Yikes. While writing it there two to four small places where I switched from Third person to First. I thought I had fixed them all but here were three paragraphs with First Oops.
Now I recall that the Beta reader did mention that.