“Sometimes, after you’ve cut everything, you could realize that you weren’t really saying anything at all — and while that realization might be sad, it’s also very valuable.”
The Onion may be a humor publication, but its founding editor Scott Dikkers has great advice to share no matter what kind of things you write.
Hubspot interviewed him for this post in which he explains 10 universal writing rules including that the key to quality is quantity, to make your writing accessible, and that specific detail always make writing better.