Editing – Make Every Word Earn its Place

Making Every Word Earn its Place

Earlier, I talked about fine tuning the manuscript. One of the advantages of using a program like SmartEdit (I gave examples here) is that while you’re looking at words or phrases it’s flagged, you discover places where you’ve used more words than necessary. You want your manuscript lean and mean before sending it to your editor. Every word needs to earn its place. It should be the strongest word possible. Fillers and filtering words should be zapped. Verbs sh...