As <a href="http://davidhewson.com/2010/01/15/me-whats-the-deal-with-swearing/" target="_blank">I wrote a while back</a> I try to keep down the language in the books these days. I don't have any moral objection to swearing. I do find myself <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">pissed off</span> annoyed by unnecessary words.

Sometimes you can kill both with one well-aimed stone. Here's the original sentence from the first pre-revise manuscript...
<blockquote>They turned into a short, bleak cul-de-sac littered with rubbish: paper and rotten fruit, abandoned market boxes, plastic bags of rubbish. The stench of cat’s piss was everywhere.</blockquote>
Here's the rewrite...
<blockquote>They turned into a short, bleak cul-de-sac littered with rubbish: paper and rotten fruit, abandoned market boxes, plastic bags of rubbish. The stench of cats everywhere.</blockquote>
Better I think, on both counts.