Another Angle on Coping With Editing

For my twelfth novel, “Death on the Quay”, in preparation for publishing, I’ve again used the help of AutoCrit, for editing.

This is an endorsement of the app and I wholly agree with what they say about themselves:

“AutoCrit is an awareness tool. Its job isn’t to tell you that you’re wrong, or that your writing is bad; its job is to point out possibilities for improvement. When you embrace the process, each report is a revelation. You may discover that you use too many adverbs in your dialogue tags, for instance. That doesn’t mean your writing sucks, it means you just learned a cool new trick! You’ll be alert for those pesky adverbs, and you’ll start striking them from your work before they even creep in. Bingo! You’ve just become a better writer.”

Same goes for clichés, which pop up more commonly than you think.