Editing Your Manuscript

Kathryn Craft posted an excellent list of editing tips on The Blood-Red Pencil blog. Here's a sample.

POV filters. Search for words such as realized, thought, saw, noticed, glanced and see if the prose works without them. Such words can often exhibit a lack of confidence in one’s ability to establish point of view. If you put us into a character’s head and stay there, we’ll know whose observations and opinions are being put forth without attribution.

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