I’ve gone through my manuscript and purged it of unnecessary ‘ing’ words. I tend to write very ‘present’ (may be due to my ‘method’ writing.. possibly) which is fine but I have a habit of doing that very naughty mistake. Here are a couple of examples



Example                                                        Which should actually be
‘I was riding really fast’                                ‘I rode really fast’
‘David was wishing she’d hurry up’            ‘David wished she’d hurry up’

So a minor victory! Yay. Now I just have to go back through it and check my use of the word ‘were’ and ‘grinned’. I noticed an over use of both in the document. That and I have put double spaces between sentences in dialogue and apparently you don’t so I need to fix that too. My friends are teasing me for being pedantic but after some of the horrid reviews I read on Amazon on other self-published work I’d rather be safe than sorry! Of course I know there will be people who won’t like it, I am prepared for that I’d just prefer that they can’t fault the workmanship too much *sigh*