One Ridiculously Easy Way To Improve Your Manuscript
So you want your writing not to suck. There's a ridiculously effective way to improve it. It's easy--once you know how: Put your manuscript on a diet! I have a guest post from writing coach extraordinaire , Rayne Hall, with some tips. SLIM YOUR WRITING STYLE FOR THE NEW YEAR Does your writing style have bulges and saggy bits? Dr Rayne's Word Loss Diet helps you to trim, slim, tighten and tone your manuscript. In thirty years as an editor, I've found the same fatty words bloat the style of many authors. Here is a notorius, fattening, calorie-rich word: 'could'. If you cut it from your diet your writing style will be come sharper and tighter. Beginner writers are prone to overusing it. Experienced authors may use it a lot in their drafts, but edit it out in the final version. Instead of telling us that the heroine could see, could hear, could smell or could feel something, let her see, hear, smell, taste, feel it. Simpl...
