I’m about to take off for Lucky Las Vegas for the Medical Fusion Conference, where I’ll be presenting a writing workshop on 5 Secrets of Good Writing, serving on a panel about getting published and meeting one-on-one with aspiring authors in the medical field.
Here’s one secret to good writing: Don’t use any extraneous words, even if you feel you really want to and it seems like it would be helpful to add a few clauses in your sentence so that it’s meaty and has a lot in it, because the reader eventually gets lost with all that run on writing and will forget what they’re even reading after a while. Know what I mean?
In other words, keep it short and sweet.
Someone wise once told me that Really is really unnecessary and So is so superfluous. Short and Sweet is my new motto. (And why I love Twitter!) 140 characters of short and sweet every time.