If you have ever written any piece of work; be it a poem, an article, a story, a novel, a psalm or just a thought, each of your works as a writer must always be in a state of improvement.
It is amazing to have been published, but more importantly if you have not published the work yet there is opportunity to always improve the work over and over again.
As many time as you get to improve your work, you make each word earn its place in your piece of work to give credence to the message.
Writing ideas consisting of forms, structure, voice and play on words etc.
that most of the time choke the message.
It happens in many forms of artistic expressions consumers of the art do not get the message that has been put together in the manner in which the artist intended.
Time, reading and rereading the work for a writer will rid the work of all ambiguity that may becloud the message.
To be able to do this effectively the writer may need to reexamine the work from the word level.
This is the simplest yet important component in conveyance of idea or thought.
Weigh each word and determine if it communicates the notion intended.
If the thought expressed by your words are satisfactory, attention must also be paid to ambiguous and cumbersome words.
Words that may confuse the reader because they have more than one meaning or are unnecessarily bulky should also be revised.
In some cases word economy may also be relevant.
This may require the writer to look for one succinct and cleverly delivered word to replace many strings of words that occupy precious space in a piece.
While attempting word economy, the relationship of one word to the other and the complete thought delivered by a group of words may also require changes and revisions.
If done effectively, this process will purge the work of redundancies.
The purity and clarity of the message at this point must already be coming through leaving the writer with the simple task of examining the interaction between paragraphs.
All paragraphs must flow seamlessly into the next with effortless finesse, carrying the reader gently away from the previous though into the next without the slightest confusion or disappointment.
When satisfaction has been attained in all these aspects the bulk of the work is done save the introduction and the conclusion.
Recreate the introduction to draw the readers in if it does not already do that.
The conclusion must be a beautiful closure to a gratifying read.
The revisit of the work is done, at least until the next revisit after the passage of time when ideas that seem relevant become less relevant.