Particularly in non-fiction/persuasive/social action-related writing, before you set out to write, decide on the one crystal-clear message for the piece, write, then edit with that message in mind, asking yourself, “does this sentence/phrase/paragraph help me make that single crystal-clear point? Or, does it distract and feel tangential?”
Because here’s…
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