"::It's 632 words as of this moment, so there's a fair amount of room to add details. Two tricks to trim without changing content are: 1) Remove that word ""that"" when you can — a sentence will often read the same without it. 2) Change passive voice to active voice: ""The cat was pick up by John"" > ""John picked up the cat"" saves two words and makes for a more dynamic sentence. Old writers' trick. Ahem, old writers' ""technique.""   

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