This is a continuation of my notes about self-editing, offered by by Talsa Sainz.

Narration: don’t break character. That includes the narrator. They are a narrator.
 Voice: passive: the pie was eaten by the man.
 The man ate the pie
 The jar is filled with sand.
 Sand filled the jar.
 Narration: passive voice
 The narration was/were
 Beware of the ING
 The guard was swinging (no was plus with ing) the guard his sword.
 The guard swung his sword.
 Tense: present simple, past single, future, past
 Narration: point of view. Keep it consistent.
Function: sticky sentences: The more you say the less they remember.
 Substances: prepositions: in on of
 Conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or yet, so
 Articles: the, an, a
 Happens when there are a lot of prepositions in a row.
Dialog: beats. Characters actions between bits of dialog.
 You cannot see that boy anymore” her father slammed his hand on the table.
 Dialog: Said, asked, replied, yelled whispered.
 Use said as much as possible.
 Words that can be used as verbs: exclaimed, divulged, disclosed.
Dialog names: don’t have your characters; overuse each other’s name in the dialog.
It shows that you don’t trust the reader.
 Dialog: what to look for
 Quotation marks
 Said
 All dialog tags
 Check for beats
 If the dialog does not bring the story forward delete it
Text analysis: Google: text analyses
 Word count
 Most common words
 Average sentence length,
 Average word length
 Simplify of language
How to color the words:
 CTR F drop down,
 Select advance find.
 Put in Word in replace.
 Go to
 Click on the whole word only.
 Format
 Font >highlight in red.
 And replace all.

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