Shrinking Word Count!

I’ve been going through my WIP and zapping all the extra words that don’t add anything. Lots of “thats” and the like. On one hand it’s depressing to see the word count dropping, but it is reassuring to know that the writing it tighter and flows better overall because of it.

The hero is still proving elusive, but this will keep me busy for a while. I’m finding patterns that I’m apparently very fond of over using.  I’m trying to keep a list so I can refer back to it in the future. The IE is happy to be out of the box at last!