Is your writing flabby or fit? If your sentences are weighed down with passives and prepositions, be-verbs and waste words, The Writers Diet is for you. This book will help you energise your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose. The Writers Diet offers a short, sharp introduction to great writing. Through the online test at www.writersdiet.com and the analysis and examples in this book, Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds students to teachers, lawyers to librarians how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words and energise their work by stripping away unnecessary padding. The rules of good writing are deceptively simple but this book helps writers to see those principles at work, through examples by stylish...
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