In my writing I tend to add in extra words that are not needed. Principle #17 talks about omitting needless words. It says that a sentence should contain NO unnecessary words, and a paragraph should contain NO unnecessary sentences. I believe my problem is adding extra words in sentences to try and describe things, when in reality if I would omit those words then the sentence would have greater impact, and less fluff. I also though #14, use the active voice, went along with this. It pointed out that when sentences are made stronger they are often shorter. This was good advice for me to keep in mind that kind of stuck out in my head.
My strongest principle talked about is probably #20, keep related words together. I can usually tell when my sentences are repetitive or choppy. I have found that reading what I have written down out loud rather than just in my head helps me pick out the choppy parts and parts that don’t flow together smoothly.
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