Inflated Sentences

Every writer needs to go about pricking and popping sentences that are filled with rhetorical hot air. These often the result from trying to make something sound complicated that is not. Here is a waggish illustration taken from Constance Rooke's The Clear Path:

One of the most disturbing types of possible tendencies that occurs when we begin the act of writing is an inability of sorts to suitably render into concise and wholly efficient language our multidimensional ranges of various ideas.

What the writer is trying to say in 38 words could be concisely rendered in only 13 words:

A major problem in writing is the inability to express our ideas concisely.

Your reader will feel favourably inclined toward what you have written if you discipline yourself to write plainly and concisely. In the art of writing, to borrow from the Quakers, 'tis a gift to be simple.