You Can Ignore Your ‘Self’ and Just Improve

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 — the isn’ts, the will-bes, the would-have-been, could-have-been, should-have-beens — scrap them all.

Find the core. Do it a lot. Learn what you need as you go. Trust it will change you.