: I'm not a pro, but I do have a journalism degree and I've been published. I'm also older, and things I might have been precious about in the past have been beaten out of me. Read deliberately,

I'm not a pro, but I do have a journalism degree and I've been published. I'm also older, and things I might have been precious about in the past have been beaten out of me.

Read deliberately, like a copy editor. In fact, you should learn to copy edit. If you're not doing fiction, you should learn fact checking, which is technically part of copy editing.

Which is to say, don't be sentimental, make sure what you say is accurate, and stop adding words and phrases and paragraphs that don't add anything.

Myself, and so many others, start out so in love with our own voice, as if each word we write is set to a melody everyone loves to hear. In practice, most people just want to transfer the information from the copy on the page or screen into their brain.

Relentless efficiency, accuracy and clarity over cleverness.

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