Review: How to cut prose
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
The besetting sin of beginning writers is too many words. Constructions that are too wordy, unnecessary phrases and other extraneous matter that defocuses the writer's prose. This is why one of the major parts of rewriting is unwriting -- cutting what you don't need to make the work stronger.Hall's suggestions are a good place to start that unwriting process. As a full-time writer of fiction and non-fiction, I don't agree with all her techniques, but she does a good job of covering a vital subject for beginners and the book is well worth it.