Last week, I was asked about my process to cut words from my writing. This is a subject near and dear to me since my drafts are overwritten. This is the list I came up with.

• Question all adverbs.
  
• If the verb is a form of to be I try to find an active verb to replace it. I find it cuts words in the process.
  
• Sometimes I use sentence diagramming to ( Read more... )