Tyora Moody

Edit Yourself

Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works With Words by Bruce Ross-Larson

I found this book at the Lifeway bookstore when I went to the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference this past spring. The cover caught my attention among a stack of books. The more I flipped through it, the more I thought this is a great little book. Sometimes when writing, I use too many words. This book shows you how to tighten your writing and think about your wording.

BOOK DESCRIPTION: In the first part of this useful book, the author shows how to solve common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize words and phrases that should be cut; how to shorten cumbersome sentences; how to arrange the elements of pairs, series, and compound subjects and predicates; how to recognize and rectify mismanaged participles; and how to be on the lookout for the better word. The second part of the book consists of more than 1500 recommendations for cuts, changes, and comparisons that editors make to produce writing that is concise and effective.

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