Affirmation #23
You Can Ignore Your ‘Self’ and Just Improve
How to shift from ‘I am’ to ‘I will’
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6 min readJul 10, 2023
In college I learned an exercise that drastically improved my writing skills. Writers call the practice E-prime.
To write in e-prime, simply omit any version of the word “to be” from your prose. Drop is, am, are, were, or was, and also their cousins —…
