Get the first draft written. Worry about the overused words later.

By R.J. Harlick
Do you ever find yourself over-using certain words in a first draft? What do you do to avoid or correct that?
Ah, those niggly little comfort words. You know those feel good words that just seem to slip in as you plunk away on your story. There I’ve already used a couple.  Can you identify them? I use them a lot. Whoops. Another one. So it’s usually about now that I tell myself, it’s no big deal. I’ll get rid of them all in the next round of revisions. I just need to get th...