Hello my fellow bloggers, hope you've had a productive writing week. Mine was devoted to editing my manuscript. First, I printed it off, then grabbed my trusty red pen and went to town. One glaring mistake I noticed (among many), was I tended to repeat phrases. I seemed to love using the following words: then, such as, just as, but, yet, and at that moment. I also have problems with commas. Depending on the day and my mood, either I overused or underused them. There was no happy medium. By the time I finished editing the first five chapters, the pages looked as if someone had bled on them. Although I reviewed my draft onscreen multiple times before now, somehow the problems slipped past me. Guess my editing lightbulb must not have been connected to the outlet back then. Best I can figure, my heightened attention to detail was...