Style Questions:

1. Have you checked for redundancies, repetitions, homonyms and other word choice issues?
2. Have you used all the senses?
3. Is the writing more active than passive?
4. Have you over-used modifiers?
5. Have you checked for malapropisms and Tom Swifties?
6. Have you used the proper language for the time period and geographic area in your book?
7. Have you used the correct customs and manners for the time period and area?
8. Is your history correct? Don’t invent or discover something before it’s been done in reality and don’t misplace actual historical people or places.
9. Have you check the housing, transportation, food, dress, etc. for the time period?
10. Have you kept a time line so your scenes follow a logical path?
11. Have you checked for consistencies not only in time line, but also with characterizations?
12. Have you used or overused similes and metaphors?
13. If you used a motif, did you use the same one consistently