Cut this by a third without sanding off my voice.

A shorter version in your own words, with a list of what was cut and why.


When to use
When you’re over the word limit, or you can feel the reader’s patience running out.
Time
5 min

The prompt

The draft below is too long. Cut it to about without flattening it. Take out repetition, warm-up sentences, hedges and anything the reader already knows. Keep my wording wherever you can: delete before you rephrase, and don’t trade my words for smoother ones. Leave in the odd lines that sound like a person, even if they aren’t strictly needed. After the shorter version, give me a short list of what you cut and why, plus one cut you were tempted to make and didn’t. If reaching the length would mean losing something the piece needs, stop short and tell me what it is. Here is the draft:

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