Write Tight is a concise-writing guide by William Brohaugh, former editor of Writer's Digest, with a foreword by Lawrence Block. It goes past the usual advice to cut redundancy and takes on evasiveness, affectations, roundabout phrasing, tangents and invisible words. It is built for writers who already draft well but want tighter prose, and it is more practical and exercise-driven than broad style manuals like The Elements of Style. Dean Koontz and Midwest Book Review both single out its discipline and usefulness.
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Reviewers treat it as a practical, readable guide to cutting flab, with Koontz calling its advice gold and Midwest Book Review calling it a must-have. Praise centers on its discipline and hands-on exercises rather than theory.
Write Tight is a guide to keeping prose focused and concise. It is written by William Brohaugh, a former editor of Writer's Digest, with a foreword by Lawrence Block.
The book goes beyond redundancy and overwriting. It also covers evasiveness, affectations, roundabout writing, tangents and invisible words.
It outlines four levels of wordiness and identifies 16 types of flabby writing. Exercises help writers avoid wordiness, and sidebars and checklists show how to streamline text. Tests let writers check how concise their prose is. The advice applies to prose, nonfiction, journalistic copy, screenwriting and other kinds of writing.
