The Polish Edit

I haven't had much time in the past few weeks to work on the polish edit of the GIANT, but I've found enough time to make it through the first 40 (of 218 and shrinking) pages. It's going well, most passages flow well and I don't feel the compulsion to rewrite everything. The heaviest work I've done is moving sentences around. I'm trimming a lot of extra words out as well - I've taken 3 total pages out - for the most part individual words and sentences.

I'm wondering if I'm overediting this. For the first time in my life I've been reading books on how to write. I never took to English classes too well, and I never had a creative writing class, so finer techniques I'm not too up on. Like words that end in ly (adverbs?) and passive voice - both big no-nos. I turned on grammar check for the first time as well - thinking I would get barraged with warnings (as I did when I used it in college or high school), but apparently I've learned something - most of the warnings were for using contractions or sentence fragments. Sentence fragments.

At the same time I have had the outline for the book open. I'm updating it and adding choice quotes to it. I'll use this to construct an outline and synopsis for the book - though I'm not clear on the difference between the two. One is longer and one is a little more boring - I checked out a book from the library that tells me which is which - I'll have to recheck.