I've been working on Dragon Hunters today. As I was reading some of the passages I had written I realized there was a word that I was probably using too much.
Probably.
So I did a "Find and Replace" to delete every instance of the word "probably." In 47,643 words, I found I had probably used the word "probably" seventeen times!
The moral of the story. Be careful with your writing. Watch for your own personal abuse, overuse of specific words.
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