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If you're good enough, you can get away with anything.  But be prepared, like JKR, to get a few rejections.

Not in this one.  She's called to fprbearance.  Later, though ...

Not at all.  Confontation in the street.  Subtexts.

Had a BFO while thinking about SSnape, best conceived character I've ever read.

Dan, all problems I've had myself.  When I find more I'll be able to write about them!

Or go without the contractions but drop the 'for you' in the second case.  In the first  'but I am following'.

Whazzup wit' NJC?

Well, I've reached a point where I see how my work isn't good enough, but I'm groping blindly for better.  I need to push on through this.

I also need to renumber chapters ... which suggests I also need to manage structure better, to do more in less, to give each item more roles to play.

I give myself 'til midnight Friday.

"You've given me a lot to think about  I need to understand why you've suggested these changes and how I can use that within my own style."

I sometimes push hard in reviews, but I try to explain.

The glitch seems to have disappeared.

Hmm.

"The Secrets of Story" by Matt Bird.  Maybe a bit more foundational than the others, but very good.

Read my comments.  Nine and sixty ways.

Romances somtimes switch PoV mid-sentence.  They're like the circus equestrian standing with each foot on a different horse.

The right word is economical.  It delivers great value to the reader with minimum interpretive effort, and no distraction from a need to assemble a picture from multiple words.