A handy little books with some useful advice.

05 Feb A handy little books with some useful advice.

In my on going desire to promote writers books, I am critiquing a small book by Rayne Hall called “The Word-Loss Diet: Professional Self-Editing Techniques for Authors.”

The little book is packed full of really useful tips. You find yourself with too many thats or looks. Well using her simple techniques of applying your word processer’s highlighting and find and replace you will see how many of your trouble words are in your manuscript.

I find myself with a lot of nods and looks. Two of my biggest foibles, but when I use the techniques described in the book, all of the words that cause problems get highlighted.

She also provides a list of common overly used words. Words to look out for, and increases your awareness of your mistakes in your manuscript when you are in revision.

A very handy little book one that you should get for your kindle or even in print form.