Last night I sat down to write, and as usual, read through the changes I'd made the night before. Whoah, Nellie. Someone was tired on Friday! I found all sorts of weird problems in the 1/2 chapter I'd revised. A few examples:
- I've been checking for passive verbs, but sometimes I don't get the sentence completely fixed. "She was carrying the books" is supposed to become "She carried the books", but Friday night, the sentence looked more like "She carrying the books." Which would be fine if I was writing in the voice of a four-year old, but I'm not, so... not so great.
- I've been deleting entire sentences when they aren't important. But Friday night, I apparently wasn't getting the whole sentence. So I would have random words like "She" or "because" or "monkeys" just floating around in the middle of a paragraph.
Ha ha! Monkeys. I love that you posted that. Yay you, making so much progress - on the book AND the blog. Very impressive. Go you! :)
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