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Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity

Writing Excuses

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The Importance of Brevity in Writing

"I have to squish the dialogue into four panels and accomplish an actual story purpose plus a punchline," he says. "It forces a whole lot of discipline on me." The first thing to go is the filler language, then I start looking at ideas in the sentence or in the paragraph that can be combined into a single multifunctional idea", writer adds.

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