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Editing!

Love it or loathe it, it’s a necessary part of the writing process. But it does present some challenges.

Life is sweet…

“Oh, look at that sentence.

So beautiful and so perfect!

Who says you can’t write a sentence right the first time, go me!”

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Punctuation woes…

“Why did I put that comma there?”

…deletes comma

“Nope, it was right before.”

…replaces comma

“Nope, it’s a semicolon!”

…replaces with a semicolon

“It works better as two sentences. Ha!”

…splits into two sentences

<sighs>

…removes all punctuation and joins using an ‘and’

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The duplicate…

“Why do I have three sentences in a row starting with ‘He’!”

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Thesaurus woes…

“I don’t like that word…it feels clunky…I need a better word.”

…opens thesaurus

…replaces word

“Nope.”

…opens thesaurus

…replaces word

“Nope!”

…opens thesaurus

…replaces word

“Nope!!!”

…puts original words back

<sighs>

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When nothing works…

“OMG! This sentence is so bad! What the bloody hell was a trying to say!”

…changes order

“Crap!”

…changes to internal thoughts

“No!”

…gives to another character as speach

“Awful!”

…rewrites completely

“OMG!!! I hate this sentence!”

…chop

<contented sigh>