Welcome to the 500-Word Rant.

A Zen-like exercise in discipline, staying in the present, and letting go of all worldly care, except my extreme anger.

Original Illustration by Author. Notice the subtle gradations and sophisticated color palette juxtaposed against my crude drawing skills.

In my journey to become a high quality writer (as evidenced here, here, here, and here), I’ve noticed some bad habits.

Those faults include, but are not limited to:

1. An almost addictive adoration anchored in avidity and attached to any and all alliteration.
2. The desire to write about too many subjects in the same article.
3. A reckless love for the stream of consciousness expression.
4. The bizarre notion that readers won’t mind ridiculously long set-ups, as long as there’s a good punch line, for example:

“I started to write a brief response… But how could the simple phrase “just keep writing, it really does matter” suffice, when I could whip up a 1,000-word post out of (and composed primarily by) thin air?”

To overcome these bad habits, I will write 500-word essays.

To symbolize this new…