Diction

In the sixth chapter of John Trimble's book Writing With Style he trys to tell us about diction. There are many things that he says in the chapter, but there are a few that really apply to my writing. The first thing he talks about and probably the most important for me is about being concise. He says on page 49 that a writer should act like they earn a dime for every word that they delete. I need to take this advice not because I am overly verbose but that I use just a little too many words. I like to make things sound nice by adding words, which isn't overly too much, but it is not perfectly concise. Another thing he talked about was freshness; using nice words to make the whole piece of writing sound better. I feel like I try to make things sound interesting through my words, but I tend to overuse certain words or cliches. Those two things are ideas that Trimble introduced that if I used I could take my writing up to the next level.