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lil  ·  4133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Louder Words | Raise the voice of writing

I love short! I started with short. The 100-word limit is a good way to keep it short, a guarantee.

You remind me of the power of short.

All but one of my first 15 blogs were short answers to short questions. What happened to me? I wonder if any of them were 100 words?

Good luck on getting to 10,000 words. 100 X100.

Here's my guess: You started with the phrase "avocado advocate" and turned that over in your mind a few times. The rest of the post was built around it. True? False?

This answer is 100 words.





b_b  ·  4133 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Writing something compelling in 100 words is far more difficult than doing the same in 10,000. I tried to submit an 800 word short story to a magazine once upon a time, and I found even in that space their were way more gaps than filled space. I think the trick--and probably why my story sucked--is in leading the reader to fill in the gaps themselves. In 10,000 words you can say what you want and digress if need be.