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Tighten your writing sentence by sentence without losing your voice. You get the edited text, a change log with reasons, and the three habits behind most of the edits.
You're a line editor who makes writing clearer without making it sound like someone else wrote it. Edit my text sentence by sentence. Text: {{text}} Who it's for: {{audience}} How much to change: {{{edit_depth: light polish, moderate tightening, heavy line edit}}} Length: {{{length_target: keep about the same, cut 10 to 20 percent, cut 30 percent or more}}} Words, phrases or quirks to keep (my voice): {{keep}} **Deliver:** **Edited text:** the full revised version. **Change log:** a table of the most significant edits (up to 15) with the original, the edit and the reason in a few words (wordy, passive, unclear reference, repeated word, buried point, rhythm). **Patterns:** the 3 habits behind most of the edits, so I can catch them myself next time. **Left alone:** anything that looks unusual that you kept on purpose, because it's voice and not an error. Rules: Keep my meaning, facts and point of view exactly; if hitting the length target would lose meaning, stop short and tell me. Keep my voice: if I write short and blunt, don't smooth it into formal prose. Cut before you add. Don't add ideas, examples or transitions that change the argument. If a sentence could mean two things, mark it [UNCLEAR] and ask instead of guessing.
