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 ====Organise your writing.====
 ====Edit your writing.====
-It is ''hard'' to write clearly. You have to work at it. You must be self-critical. Editing takes more time writing. Three times more. So write two thirds fewer sentences. But make them good ones.
+It is ''hard'' to write clearly. You have to work at it. Editing is harder work than writing. It takes three times as long. So write two thirds fewer sentences. But make them ''good'' ones. Take pride in your work. Be elegant.
+====Be self-critical.====
+We are lawyers: elegant writing doesn't come naturally to us. We had it trained out of us.  The cultural weight of our education, training and professional development conditioned us to write in a certain way.
+To stop writing that way, we must be very self-critical.
 ====Keep sentences short.====