[Zolomon]

Is there no beauty in painting vivid pictures through colourful expression?

Sure, being terse makes consumption faster and easier, but don't you trade

that for the tool of directing the reader's imagination?

I guess the skill is in being terse yet still descriptive?

[combatentropy]

The examples in this tool can be misleading, especially if you haven't read the classics like _The Elements of Style_ and _On Writing Well_. Ridding your writing of fluff is central to their teaching, but not at the expense of detail.

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

--- William Strunk Jr., _The Elements of Style_

Instead of quoting them at length, I will let you read them when you have time. The Elements of Style is less than 100 pages, and most of On Writing Well is tied up in the first four chapters.

[eru]

Be very careful with the Elements of Style. Not everyone shares their prescriptions (and their descriptions are mostly wrong).

[Zolomon]

Thank you! I was not aware of their existence.