> trim your writing to the pith in every paragraph or even line This takes a lot of time. Writing concisely is much more challenging and time-consuming than wr

> trim your writing to the pith in every paragraph or even line This takes a lot of time. Writing concisely is much more challenging and time-consuming than writing verbosely. Writing unnecessarily long essays means that your readers end up spending more time reading them than you did writing them. As Blaise Pascal wrote: "I only made this letter longer because I had not the leisure to make it shorter."