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Eros's avatar

As someone who practices the venerable arts of prose poetry and poetry, alike, I support your suggestion that we excise each useless word, like seeds in bread, so that the reader's teeth may drive home unimpeded.

P.S. Your quote selection is rather inspiring. ;)

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Steve Kelsey's avatar

Great advice. Sparse writing can be a foil to indulgent writing where one constants the other to great effect. I find this helps with dialogue as well.

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