Shortform Teaches You to Write Better

How often do you read an article and realize the author had nothing to say? Any fool can pump out a thousand meaningless words in an hour. Saying something worthwhile is hard; saying it in just a hundred and fifty words is even harder.

Fortunately, if you can learn to say something with shortform, you can also say it well in longform. Good shortform must be mercilessly edited, every unnecessary word stripped out. The weak verbs replaced by strong ones, the long sentences rewritten and shortened. When you only have a hundred words, every single one counts.

This is a skill worth developing. If you can write good shortform, your longform will improve too. Good writing is concise, to the point, and holds the reader’s attention. In longform this makes for good reading; in shortform it is a necessity.