Kurt Vonnegut once shared these rules for writing:
* Find a subject you care about.
* Do not ramble, though.
* Keep it simple.
* Have the guts to cut.
* Sound like yourself.
* Say what you mean to say.
* Pity the readers.
Doesn't get much simpler--or much better than that.
And while we're on Mr V, here's one more thing he wrote: "The arts puts man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage--and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still--I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art."