[readthenotes1]

Wordiness, in the fantasticly useful advice I am quite frequently accustomed to receiving in the rare and unusual (I cannot go so far as to say unique though that is nearly as a tick to a dog true) circumstances that have led me to receiving others thoughts on my quite elegant prose might be characterized as inserting too many brilliantly (to the astute author) descriptive adverbs and adjectives that somehow impede the understanding normal dull attention deprived reader.

Also: using more words that fewer

[martinjacobd]

I guess I just don't see sentences like this, even from novice writers.

[readthenotes1]

I don't see sentences like this, even from novices.

For example:)

Btw, Stephen Brust has a series of books whose authorial tone is explicitly wordy, and he makes it work.