relieved

Was just looking over docbrites discussion of Tom Swiftys, saidisms, and adverbs, etc.

And I became concerned.

I just did a rewrite on "The Wood and the Brass", adding and rearranging a pivotal scene, and I was concerned I'd turned it into something that resembled some of the examples docbrite used in her examples.

I was relieved to see that I had not, and that, as a matter of fact, the scene isn't so bad.

The writer's prayer:

"Please keep me from writing bad, cheesy dialog and action, and once I've become a writer, please help me stay a writer. Thank you."

Reference to greygirlbeast and Harlan there, of course.