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The best writing advice you’ll read today.

Ken Davis quotes some good advice from You Send Me, by Patricia O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman:

Some puffed-up writers use long words, techie talk, trendy terms, and convoluted sentences to cover up or deceive or sound important or go along with the crowd. Most people who inflate their writing, though, are simply insecure, often for no good reason. They don’t feel their ideas are strong enough, and they prop them up with elaborate language.

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