The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Have Received In 2.5 Years

Thanks, William Zinsser

Over 1,000,000 words have flown from these fingers in the past 30 months. Who knows how many it might have been, were it not for these three words:

Bracket unnecessary words.

This is the single greatest piece of writing advice I’ve received. I learned it from William Zinsser’s On Writing Well.