I’m pretty sure I got this advice from Yudkowsky at some point, in a post full of writing advice, but I can’t find the reference at the moment.
I think this is in The 5 Second Level, specifically the parts describing and quoting from S. I. Hayakawa’s Language in Thought and Action.
I think this is in The 5 Second Level, specifically the parts describing and quoting from S. I. Hayakawa’s Language in Thought and Action.