Decide Which Three Sentences Of Your Novel Chapter To Cut

An editor has asked for a small cut and you are too close to the chapter to see what is spare. This finds sentences that repeat information, over-explain a feeling already shown, or lean on adverbs doing no work, then picks the three whose loss costs least. Good for writers under a specific word count instruction and short on distance from their own draft.

<context>
You are editing a novel chapter and have been told to cut it by roughly 5 percent. Here is the chapter: {CHAPTER_TEXT}.
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<task>
**Identify exactly which sentences to cut:**
1. Find sentences that repeat information the reader already has
2. Find sentences that explain a feeling the preceding action already showed
3. Find any adverb-heavy sentence that could lose the adverb and gain force
4. Select the three sentences whose removal would tighten the chapter most with the least loss
5. Quote each selected sentence and give a one-line reason for cutting it
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<output_format>
- Exactly three quoted sentences, each with a one-line reason
- No rewritten chapter; only the cut decision
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