Well then you’re in luck if you read my books! I’m here for that, was, had, just, and all the other words deemed trash. Because I like to write how people actually talk and think. It’s messy. It’s realistic. And easily readable. 😉
Reading a more recently published book is reminding me of all of my pet peeves. Another pet peeve I have is the modern penchant for deleting “extra” words like “had” and “was”. I hate it so much, because the end result is a text that is grammatically incorrect