My Most Concise Writing Advice

Tight is right

Once I get started on a story idea, my thoughts go in many directions—blessing and curse. Even as I noodled the sentence you just read, I backed up, recrafted it, added the bit at the end. By then my mind raced into tangents.

But this is a post about reining all that in. So it’ll be among the shortest Writer’s Guide post ever.

The upshot:

As you write a st…