On: How to edit your own lousy writing (2017)

[boplicity]

Do you want an experience, or do you want information? The right writing style is very much dependent on the answer to that question.

[version_five → boplicity]

False dichotomy. Tight writing produces both. For example, there's a quote about Simenon to the effect of "nobody else can in so few words recreate the entire atmosphere of a time and place (france in the ~30s)".