The one piece of advice I get more than any - whether I ask for it or not ;-) is cutting down on exposition. I actually mentioned this in my last blog entry even. I have a tendency to ramble.

It worked great for the late great J.R.R. Tolkien, but he intentionally set out to write an epic experiment in linguistics. And he was a professor, whereas I've taken two writing comp classes in my life plus four years of AP English back in high school.

Even in this response I'm doing it again, rambling, giong off on tangents, when the simplest thing I could say is summed up in the title. I'm going to make a copy of a story that I've already edited, and then try and apply this advice and see what happens.

If nothing else it should be an interesting experiment :-D