Writing words is in the blood. I'm the son of a journalist and accomplished author, and the brother of an accomplished author. I've been told I'm a good writer, then a bad writer. For example, the entrance exam at a community college scored me very low on the essay portion, due to my not following the format. In fact, they scored me so low, I didn't even get into a required 101 level writing course. Bad writer. Academically speaking, I'm too informal. Maybe that doesn't count.
I found this simple script that removes wordiness from text by removing or simplifying words and phrases.
Zinsser transform:
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=52
And the nice, complete with library of transforms you can add to, Python script:
http://stevehanov.ca/cgi-bin/zinsser.cgi?quine=1
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