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The Clean Prose Kill List

The phrases that make readers put a book down without knowing why, and what to write instead. Two pages, ten minutes, and you'll see your own manuscript differently.

Inside the list

  • Stock openers and transitions that slow a story down
  • Filler words that weaken every sentence
  • Telling the feeling instead of showing it
  • Phrases readers now associate with machine-written text
  • Habits that pile up across a whole book

Where should we send it?

You'll get the list straight away on the next page.

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