Review: An excellent guidebook for locating unnecessary words!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
I found Rayne Hall's "The Word-Loss Diet" book to be amazingly helpful. It targets lazy writing immediately. Since I've always enjoyed mystery writing, once I get the plot worked out in my mind, I write the short story down as quickly as possible so as not to lose the momentum. However, in that writing frenzy, I sometimes tend to fall into lazy writing, putting down words that will suffice at the time. Once I've reread the story many times, those lazy words fall on deaf ears. After using "The Word-Loss Diet" to cut out the unneeded words, (and sometimes replace them with more specific ones) my stories read much better. Even though I've been writing for a long time, I still enjoy a good refresher course. This book gets to the point, gives specific examples, and also detailed ways in which to polish your prose. I'm sure I will return to "The Word-Loss Diet" as a reference guide for all of my writing projects.