This post tackles how to downsize your writing by taking out anything that distracts from your main idea.

Downsizing means eliminating the excess in your life – getting a smaller home and reducing the amount of stuff you own. We are in the process of that kind of downsizing. Downsizing stuff is not that different from editing excess words. This post looks at both types.   As I work at cleaning out closets in the home we’ve lived in for 44 years, it occurred to me that downsizing my stuff is not that different from the editing I am doing to keep the second edition of Communicati

Being concise means using no more words than needed. Being concise is not using as few words as possible. Wordiness weighs down your message. Cut ruthlessly and be concise.