Better Shorter
Last week I was asked by a reporter who works at the San Francisco Chronicle about what kind of writing I’d like to do. I tend to run long, citing the timed essay I’d completed earlier (in about 50 minutes I wrote a three-and-a-half page editorial on U.S.-Chinese relations that’s actually quite different from the one below). That suggested I was better suited for long-form rather than short-form writing. Which, in a simplified world, means magazines are a better venue for me, in her estimation. She added that since there is unlimited space on the internets, she used to think that the Web would favor longer writing. But when she asked an editor at SFGate, he said this is not the case at all. Shorter is better.
This is something I knew, but not something I always follow, as that posting below demonstrates.
Good luck, Readers!
