Also, I cut stuff all the time. Sentences, paragraphs, pages, whole chapters... I can get pretty brutal with the knife sometimes. "Scarlet Switch" (the S&S story where Zevran doms Tannu for the first time) had about a page get ripped out of it around the part where Tannu gets the leather wrapped around his neck while he's kneeling on the floor. The complete rewrite of that part was thirty billion times better.

I don't tend to pare out individual words, and I write however I write. I'm 100% self-taught, so... yeah. \o.o/