brevis

It is so difficult to write a short post.
As in...a post that you don't have to scroll in order to read it in its entirety.  Which...of course depends on the size of your screen. 

Perhaps I just feel like many of my posts are long.  Probably because the attention span of the internet is often no more than 140 characters.  Oh, internets...

Anyway.  In my AP Human Geography class, we wrote essays fairly often (about one every two weeks or so).  This may have been an awful experience, except that our teacher didn't give us a length requirement.  In fact, he hated it when we asked length questions. Here is a brief dialogue:

student: "How long should this essay be?"

Stucki: (gives them his signature "you continually surprise me at your capacity to be an idiot" look) "Did you really just ask a length question?

student: "ummm..."

He always told us (or had someone whom he thought to be less idiotic tell those deemed to be more idiotic) to let the length take care of itself.

So I had a friend who made it her personal goal to write every essay as concisely as possible in only about twelve sentences or so.  It was pretty great, really...everyone wrote pages.  Except her.

Anyway.  This post is now somewhat long, and it's about being short. :P  I suppose there's just so much to say and to explain and to explore (because really this process is just as much exploring for me as it is for you...perhaps even more) through writing, that I find it very difficult to focus things down to one concise, twelve-sentence post.  Which is not inherently bad...