The pocket book’s purpose is for an author to start with an article they feel is finished and ready for publication. Each chapter ends with a lesson where authors can rewrite according to principles learned in that chapter. Repeat and rinse for each chapter’s lesson.


This little pocket book tackles a huge subject, so Aggie Villanueva says she “attempted to teach tomes worth of rewriting knowledge by example; wasting not a word. I was even surprised how few words it took to get the lessons across, since one of my biggest writing sins is verbosity.

Even Villanueva’s “lessons by example” are filled with more examples of published work where she proposes how each could have been rewritten.

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