I have learned a lot of tips that make your writing better, and here's one which will help prevent the overuse of a word, or prevent a word from being used too close to each other. You know that "find" feature on the word.docs? Well, just type whatever word you think might be overused in there, and it will show you every place you used that word.
And if it's used more than once on the same page, or on consecutive pages, you can fix it right then and there. Probably a lot of writers already know this, but no one ever told me that before. And I'm not talking about words that are common, like "and" or "said" and such. Take the word, "admitted" for example. That word, unlike "said," should not be used twice on a page or even on consecutive pages. I would like at least a ten page distance from using it again. And with that word.doc feature, you can determine that at a glance.
Otherwise you'd have to read your manuscript word by word to determine that. And again for another word, and so on. And the time needed to do that is tremendous. Yep, that's some good advice right there.
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