I have another Tips & Tricks post that goes over compression—also known as the “Five Word Dialogue” rule. And the idea behind it is to take an emotional or heated conversation between characters and reduce their dialogue to five words or less, thus drawing focus to the real issues lying beneath the surface. By limiting your character’s words, you are forcing them to get right to the point instead of bouncing around the subject.
But this could also work for your writing in general. There have been several occasions where I felt my writing wasn’t quite capturing the mood / tension that I wanted to convey. And while it’s not necessarily about limiting yourself to five-word sentences or less (because that would give the writing a very tedious flow), the trick is to use as few words as possible to communicate what’s going on. And this could be easily accomplished by first allowing yourself to overwrite, and then reduce entire paragraphs, sentences, and maybe even pages down to their most crucial details afterward. By overwriting first, you give yourself a broader scope of what you want to say with a scene, and by whittling it down you make it more straightforward, and therefore more impactful, to the reader.