Why I do not write long stuff here!

Because if I did, I won’t.

Blog, that is.

The more appropriate question, I think would be: why put a word limit on what you write? Sticking to a word limit when you’re writing a novel make sense. There’s a certain length it has to reach for it to be called a novel; also once you’ve written it the long process of re-writing it begins. During editing the work, words, sentences, and sometimes whole paragraphs will be stricken off. It will be better t have some surplus at that time. Also, you already know how much I love symmetry!

But when it comes to blogging, when you say something like ‘Alright this stuff needs to be at least five hundred words in length’; you’re actually going against the idea of blogging. Blogging is not about restrictions, far from it in fact; it’s about spontaneity. It’s about ideas, thoughts, views and none of that can be bound. Because when someone (even yourself) asks you to write what you feel about something within a certain word limit, it’s journalism; and we’re not journalists here, we’re bloggers. We have our own sets of ideals and ethics. It isn’t the other way around, is it?

There is another angle to it. The so-called ‘interest span’ of the current generation of readers is on a bit of a decline. Really! Read the reports! I can speak of none but me. So, I’ll speak of me.

I do not like reading long blog posts. I don’t. Because once I have scrolled down to see how long the post is, you’ve lost me buddy. But don’t worry not everybody is like me!

P.S. It’s not like I don’t read long stuff. I do, but then they are usually around three hundred pages long.

P.S.S. Stuck at the three thousand word mark!