THE CONCISION POWER HOUR

A writer's guide to saying more
...with fewer words

 

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What’s the biggest mistake writers make about length?

  • They think more words make them sound more thorough.
  • They believe cutting means losing something important.
  • They edit while they draft — and end up with writing that’s both too long and too slow to produce.

Wrong.

Concision isn’t about writing less. It’s about making every word earn its place.

Learn to cut well, and you’ll:

  • Hold readers who currently skim, skip and stop
  • Sound more confident and more authoritative
  • Hit word counts without agonizing over them

But only if you have a system.

Imagine this:

You finish a draft that’s 830 words when you needed 500. You don’t panic. You don’t stare at it for an hour. You know exactly what to cut first, what to cut second, and when to stop.

No guessing. No agonizing. No hacking away at your own best lines.

That’s what I’m going to teach you in my next Power Hour class on Thursday, September 17 at 1 pm Pacific/4 pm Eastern.

If the time doesn’t work for you, no worries. Register anyway and you’ll receive a recording, cheat-sheets and copy of the PowerPoint deck.

Cutting is a skill, not a talent.

Which means it can be taught — in an hour.

Reserve your spot in the Concision Power Hour.

In this $35 class, you'll learn five game-changing ways to write and edit better:

1

Why your first draft is always too long — and the "cut-later" mindset that stops you from editing while you write

2

How to calculate the exact percentage you need to cut — and why cutting 20% and cutting 40% require completely different moves

3

Six repeatable moves that will tighten any sentence, on any draft, every time

4

The usual suspects — filler phrases, weak intensifiers, redundant pairs and prepositional pile-ups — and how to spot them in your own work

5

How to use AI (only if you wish!) as a line editor without letting it flatten your voice or quietly cut your meaning

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Take my practical one-hour class, The Concision Power Hour, and you'll walk away with...

  • A repeatable tightening process you can use on your very next draft
  • Cheat-sheets for the wordiness culprits to hunt down
  • A fast method for deciding what to cut first when you're way over length
  • The confidence to delete your favourite sentence — and the trick that makes it painless
  • Clear guidelines for when AI helps your writing or editing — and when it hurts
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Here is an advance peek at some of the slides. 

ABOUT DAPHNE

I’ve been a professional editor and writer for more than 40 years. In that time, I’ve helped hundreds of people finish dissertations, complete books, publish articles in peer-reviewed journals and hit deadlines they thought were impossible.

I write a weekly newsletter read by more than 15,000 writers in more than 20 countries. I run the Publication Coach. And I built The Power Hour because, after four decades, I know exactly which small, specific moves separate writers who finish from writers who don’t.

I’m not interested in making writing sound mysterious or hard. It’s a craft. It can be taught. And you can get dramatically better at it in less time than you think. In fact, you don’t need more time — you need better technique.

My 100% turnaround money-back guarantee
If, after watching the course, you feel it didn’t provide $35 of value for you, simply email me within a week of purchase, and I’ll give you your money back, no questions asked.

What clients say about my classes

The power of the first draft

 

Because of the class, I wrote a first draft of an article I’d been putting off (for my company newsletter). Everything you said about getting the first draft done I found to be true. 

Mark W
Toronto, Canada


Informative and accessible

I have been following Daphne for a long time now, and subscribe to her weekly email newsletter. I regularly use her mind map technique when I’m stuck, and have found her advice over the years practical and helpful. I admire tight and succinct writing, and so am a huge admirer! Her recent class on AI was a very interesting, informative and accessible class, with helpful and practical suggestions for how to get the best out of AI.

Annabel Harris
London, U.K.

Clear and practical

Daphne demonstrated how AI could be used to improve our writing. Just as importantly, she warned us about when not to use AI. I loved the clarity of her explanations and the practical examples. I am recommending Daphne’s blog and classes to both my writing groups.

Deborah Martin
Sydney, Australia

Suggestions to improve my writing 

Thanks for this useful presentation. I’ve been using ChatGPT a lot for mundane things — social media posts about events at the museum I’m associated with, job descriptions, “suggest how to freshen up this grant application.”  I’ve used it as a tutor and I’m interested to see what suggestions it makes to improve my writing. 

Laura Colcord
Salisbury, N.H.

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