Stop writing like a Victorian ghost and start punching your reader in the face with clarity. This breakdown transforms the vague goal of 'improving your writing' into a high-speed editing massacre where you’ll draft a 200-word tragedy about a minor inconvenience and then ruthlessly hunt down every weak verb and useless adverb. You are here to learn how to kill your darlings before they bore you to death, leaving behind nothing but lean, active, and undeniably sharp prose.
Fix Your Writing: Stop the Spiral and Kill the Fluff
Write 200 words about a minor inconvenience that ruins your day.
Delete every adverb ending in -ly.
Rewrite three sentences to be exactly five words long.
Replace every 'is' or 'are' with a punchy action verb.
Read the text out loud to a wall to catch awkward flow.
Delete the first two sentences of the draft.
Change three passive sentences into active ones.









