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Comment author: [deleted] 21 April 2011 03:41:38AM 2 points [-]

The most powerful method I know for improving clarity and brevity is to write, scrap, and rewrite. An even more powerful version of this is to write, scrap, sleep on it, and rewrite.

Writing concisely is often a time-consuming process, and I don't always take the time.