Keeping It Short Week, Day 1: In which I attempt to write less words

If there’s one problem the internet gives writers, it’s the lack of the end of a page. I constantly have a problem with keeping my blog posts short. Thus, as an experiment, it’s time for Keeping It Short Week, where I attempt to make my point without banging on for 1500 words. 

Yessir, 250 words or less, that’s my motto for the next seven days. It’s also a clever attempt to clear out my “blog drafts” folder which has stacked up a bit with half-assembled fragments of hot takes over the five years I’ve been doing this website. 

I left the hellsite that was once Twitter a year or so ago and have few regrets about it, except for one thing – sometimes it’s fun to write something concise and witty and then move on, and the endless trolling and hate speech kind of obscured that. 

My role model in all things brevity is old mate Bob from Temuka who somehow manages to post almost every single day and raise small humans, and for the most part, keeps his posts about half as windy as mine are. 

Writing short is good training for the brains, too, and something I generally manage in my paying journalism work. The freedom of the internet is great, but sometimes, a little discipline is good too. 

So, onwards, for a week of brief surveys of topics that are of interest to me! And if I happen to go past 250 words well then I’ll just