Is your writing flabby or fit? If your sentences are weighed down with passives and prepositions, be-verbs and waste words, The WriterAEs Diet is for you. This book will help you energise your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose. The WriterAEs Diet offers a short, sharp introduction to great writing. Through the online test at www.writersdiet.com and the analysis and examples in this book, Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds u students to teachers, lawyers to librarians u how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose.