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Final final manuscript revision before printing and submitting to my agent (now) always involves the same procedure:
delete 95% of adverbs and strengthen the verbs instead.
delete 95% of: was, all, some, that, quite, rather, then, etc;
delete 90% of dialogue tags in 2-person conversations and replace with action beats.
This process usually drops (no lie) 7-8k from my final word count and should make my personal grammar Nazi *cough, cough* much happier.
