You've sat down to write a magazine article, a short blog post, or even a few chapters for your next novel. Everything is coming together nicely, but you know it's a little too wordy. Your editor wants 700 words max. You wrote 787. It's supposed to be a 300-word blog. You have 400. Each chapter should be 3,000 words. Oops! You need to cut something. But what? How? From where? Plenty of writers struggle to be efficient with their words, especially when they have a good story b