On Writing Length

Getting myself to write without being stressed over the idea of needing to write too much.

I think one of the things holding me back from writing is the anxiety I get when thinking about having to write too much for me to handle. I've been able to write quite a bit on Twitter, because I know I'm constrained to 280 character tweets, and I'm not overwhelmed by the sense that I need to write thousand-word articles or anything like that.

But the reality is, there's no real need for me to have to write that much. Honestly, most people probably don't even want to read that much. And there's a benefit to my writing being concise.

With this in mind, I think I'm going to promise to myself that I'll try to write, even if I don't write much at all. Hopefully that helps to get me to start writing on here more.

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