Take any paragraph, count the words, and rewrite it 20 percent shorter with no loss of information. Almost all of the loss comes from run-ups, nominalizations, expletive constructions and hedges — the parts no reader was going to miss. Tap a chunk to cut it or swap it for a shorter form. Tap a green chunk and you have deleted a fact, which the counter will hold against you.
The workbench
Five real workplace sentences. Tap any chunk to apply the move; tap again to undo it.
dashed = pure deadwood, delete itblue = swap for a shorter formgreen = load-bearing fact
What the reader gets
The sentence as it now stands, with every applied move folded in.
0 words—original: 0
0
Words now
0%
Cut
0
Facts lost
Moves you made
Every cut has a name. Learn the name and you stop needing the exercise.