I'm still a "newbie" writer, having only started publishing at the beginning of the year. I've gotten a good number of compliments about the quality of my writing so far, so I was quite surprised when I got a message here from a reader telling me that Chapter 7 of my story A Submissive Sibling was repetitive and not up to my usual writing quality. I took a look and used an analysis tool and was horrified to find I had used the phrase "I could feel" 28 times in one chapter.
So it seems I developed a writing tic and was absolutely blind to it. I checked a few of my other recent chapters and found that it occurred there as well, but not quite as badly.
All this to say that I absolutely appreciate the reader, Robert, pointing this out to me. I hope anyone reading my work will help me catch things like this. I want to be a better writer and feedback goes a long way towards helping me on that journey.
Malcom Walker
Nashville, Tennessee