EXER: What’s the best bit of advice?

[mbarker]

Original Posting 2021/5/16

This challenge was actually issued in the context of writing resumes, but I think it works for writing, generally. So, here’s the challenge.

What’s the best bit of advice you have gotten (or given) about writing?

Basically, what’s one point, one idea, one piece of advice about writing that you think everyone should know? Basic, advanced, whatever, what is that one thing that you would point up for us all to pay attention to?

Go ahead. Tell us about it? Feel free to make the point, then give us the story behind it, if you like. Or maybe tell us a story, and then the moral of the story? However you want, let us know about the best advice for writing. Okay?