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How To Write Fiction (And Think About It)
Concision is a matter of removing the superfluous and the redundant, two slightly different things. You might say the superfluous is what you can manage without. The redundant, I suppose, is that phrase or word which amounts to stupid repetition of one kind or another: ‘Sunrise at this time of the year comes at 6.30 a.m.’ (It’s never going to be p.m., is it?) Or ‘This CD was electronically recorded.’ (How else?)