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SReflection
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20h ago
For context's sake, my post is 200 words, while this reply is cut up into five replies and clocks in over 2000 words. This alone should have you step back and think about people's comments about brevity and give them some weight.

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When I did professional writing, one of my mentors told me that I wrote too much because I was defensive and worried someone reading would find a flaw. I was building moats with words, instead of carving paths and paving roads with them.

This made my points, the things I cared about, so much less accessible to the people I wanted to share them with. I spent all this time thinking about and building ideas that I was proud of, then locked them away. That defeated the entire point.

Here's my drafting advice as someone who makes a lot of money writing things:

Cut out repeated restatements of the point (very common ADHD pattern that I exhibited too). Once is enough.

Drop the personal attacks. These are conversation poison in normal irl discussions and you'd never say them to a conversation partner's face. Don't do them online.

Compress your idea to it's core before sharing it. Don't work out the idea while writing. You should know what's key before you start drafting.