Olivia Kitterman
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Avoiding the Bushes: A Guide to Concise Writing
If you’re like me, sometimes the pen runs away with you. You blink and suddenly you’re a thousand words over the word count limit for the project. And you still have more to say! Words come easily to you, but sometimes that means they wander into the bushes, run the extra mile, or loop in circles. Maybe you groan and switch to a red pen, painstakingly going word by word to see how much you can trim.
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