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Final Edit Advice

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An oft-published writer buddy (primarily fantasy) recently posted this on FaceBook. Feel free to cuss, discuss, and/or add your own advice.



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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.
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I would agree this is 100% correct.
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Not sure I do that consciously so can't be sure what % I hit but those are the sorts of things that tend to happen when I am editing. I will try to be more conscious about it in future.

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This does sound like something to pay attention to like Mendalla said. Why if I ever write anything again I will try to remember.