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I listened to the audio book "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser on the way to school yesterday.

I totally liked what the author said about writing.

Some of things mentioned which I feel are especially true and some of which may be useful to you:

• As we become better educated, we become more suspicious of simplicity
• A good writer who writes about fishes don't use fish English.
  
• When the doctor says "are you experiencing any pain?", he could have asked "does it hurt?"
• Most writing can be shortened by 50%. The two words "blared loudly" can be changed to "blared".
• Use active verbs rather than passive ones (e.g. I saw him in the library (better) v.s. he was seen by me in the library (bad) ).
• Choose nouns carefully. Short ones are better than long ones.