The writer's diet

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 you energise your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose the writers diet offers a read more short sharp introduction great writing through the online test at writersdiet.com and the analysis and examples in this book helen sword teaches writers of all kinds students teachers lawyers librarians how transform flabby sentences into active energetic prose the book and the website enable writers 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 writing are deceptively simple but this book helps writers see those principles at work through examples by stylish authors from charles dickens john mcphee first published in 2007 the writers diet became a bestselling handbook and now refreshed alongside a new vers...