Interface Laundry (Signal vs. Noise)

Interface Laundry (Signal vs. Noise) is a blog entry by Matthew Linderman about designing interfaces. It's applicable to writing and editing as well. He points to the redesign of Blogger and the approach that Douglas Bowman outlined. The process is to take everything away and then figure out what to add back in as opposed to figuring out what to eliminate. This may work if you are having trouble rewriting or editing something down... just get rid of everything and then start only adding the things that you need back in.