Short Form Writing is Exploitative, Harmful, Lazy, Terrible, And Provides No Real Value
and is a literary fart. True or False?
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1 min readFeb 18, 2022
The other day, Attila Vágó surprised me.
He published a controversial piece called Why Shortform Stories Are The Worst.
I promised to give a statement in form of a… well, short form.
1. Short form is the bastard child of literature and journalism that nobody asked for.⚠️
Yes, people asked for it.
Our attention span is lower than from a goldfish.
People skim, browse and scroll.
2. Self-serving and pointless.⚠️
With short form writing, you have to get to the point, make your writing short and sweet — without the fluff.
3. It’s lazy, exploitative, and harmful in the long term.⚠️
Reading a short form piece is like a first date.
Do you want more? Read the long form piece!
✅No, it’s not a ‘literary fart’.
