Take a page from the Dickens of Detroit
Elmore Leonard was a novelist, screen writer, and short-story author. He wrote Three-Ten to Yuma and Get Shorty. Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh made his stories into movies.
This Dickens of Detroit is famous for leaving out "the parts that people tend to skip".
My favourite quote of his
"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."
The best writing is invisible
Excellent writing communicates without anyone noticing the writing.
It isn't 'writerly'. It tends to mimic speech but is tighter than speech.
How do you do this at work?
Get a clear mental image of your reader.
Write down what you'd say if you were speaking to them.
Add more full stops and pare back the excess.
Pare back a little bit more.
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