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🎧Write Less, Please [updated]
The point here isn’t to encourage the spewing of shallow, short posts but to distill long drafts into short posts that give our readers depth, dimension, and emotion in under eight hundred or a thousand words.
Sarah Fay • 🎧Write Less, Please [updated]
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have time.” ~Blaise Pascal, 1657
🎧Write Less, Please [updated]
A Substack newsletter is a medium and a genre. Like books, magazines, newspapers, fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, it has demands and constraints—and readers with preferences.
Sarah Fay • 🎧Write Less, Please [updated]
Writing less, especially if you’re early on in your trajectory as a Substack writer or writer, will make you more skilled and versatile and require you to think more deeply.
Sarah Fay • 🎧Write Less, Please [updated]
I don’t disagree with publishing shorter pieces, but I think that’s where editing comes in. Writing long pieces and editing them down (or choosing not to) is how you acquire the skill of becoming a better writer.