Wordiness is a crime!
Many of us are frequent offenders of this crime. We fill sentences with long and redundant words. We do this to make it sound like we know what we’re talking about (when we really don’t) or to fill the page with words. Or, we somehow feel that using long wordy sentences will make us sound more professional.
Stop writing long sentences just for the sake of being long! The best writers will agree that the shorter and more direct the sentence is, the better. The purpose of sentences is to get a thought across to the reader. If you have more than one thought in a sentence, chances are that you need two sentences (or a comma if the two thoughts are related).
Here’s a good blog post about this topic.
