Source
The cut begins with the writer’s actual language, not a replacement draft.
01 · The job
Reduce a draft without taking the voice.
Cut helps a writer remove repetition, borrowed language, and weak structure. It shows the edit and leaves the last word with the person who wrote the source.
The cut
A proposed reduction stays visible so it can be kept, changed, or rejected.
Authorship
The product does not claim the final word or silently rewrite the piece.
The page
The live instrument is on this site at /cut.
02 · The contract
Distillation is not replacement.
Every cut has something honest to answer to. Private drafts are not raw material for a shared model or a behavioral profile.
Every cut stays reviewable. Nothing is silently replaced. The voice is not harvested.
03 · What this book is not
This is not a songwriter marketplace.
Earlier Cut books described a sync room for songs, buyers, and an advocate named June. That product is not what ships. The live product is editorial distillation. The older marketplace book is retired source, not current identity.