Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Finally, dialects and regionalisms can also employ redundancy or wordiness, and fiction writers who want their characters to sound authentic embrace these quirks.
Otherwise commanding voice is an occasional wordiness Her loquacious loquacious spirit, but his heart is laid bare in his contemplation of the woman who still haunts him.
A common way to fall into wordiness is to present a single complex idea, step by step, in a series of sentences that might to advantage be combined into one.