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Yep. Like I said, it's good advice as long as you don't take it too literally. Like a lot of such advice it tries to sound simple and inspiring, whereas in truth it over-simplifies a complex subject. Yes an author should strip out what doesn't add to the story, but there's the rub: what adds to the story is subjective. Stephen King has some wonderful asides in many of this novels and they were often very good at revealing something about the character in the main story, but sometimes they are annoying and ultimately pointless. Even a master like Stephen King sometimes gets it wrong, or wrong in the eyes of this amateur - which is what I mean about them being subjective. It's great advice only after you learn what it really means.
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