Three sentences that could make your writing better

Speechwriter J.F. McKenna tells Vital Speeches that the best advice he ever got was just about the best advice any writer could ever get.

It came from his first editor, a Russ Faist, when McKenna was a rookie reporer. “Quoting legendary Cleveland News reporter Randall Brown, Faist would look over my shoulder and say, ‘Get it right. Write it tight. And make it march.”

Ten hut.