Write tight : how to keep your prose sharp, focused, and concise

"In this book, William Brohaugh teaches you how to say exactly what you want with grace and power, using not only the right word, but also the right number of words. He discusses much more than redundancies and what is typically thought of as flabby writing. He also shows you how to tackle other sources of flab: evasiveness, empty blather, affectations, roundabout writing, self-indulgence, "inflated" and "deflated" language, tangents, and invisib...