Hopefully, he has--cough--written paragraphs that are easy to delete, not easy to modify. Ha. Ha. Ha.<p>But seriously, this general idea strikes me as being applicable to writing words as well. Write in such a decoupled way that it is relatively easy to excise paragraphs and sections without destroying the rest of the piece.<p>That may introduce a small amount of redundancy, but it also makes it easy to read in smaller chunks, reorder, or remove outright rather than edit portions that no longer fit.