Tag: writing long

A Long-Writer Cozies Up to 140 Characters and 500 Words

And so it begins. In March 2009 I grabbed @JFRQ, my first Twitter handle, and immediately posted the oh-so-neither-profound-nor-interesting tweet, “Just established myself on Twitter.” A few months after grabbing @JFRQ (did you know that the genesis of the entire JFRQ naming milieu rests on how it was always easy […]

Opening Post

I well remember someone saying to me, after my last group email sent earlier this year, “Can’t you write shorter?” To which I thought, “These are New Yorker like pieces (in quantity, if not quality), and aren’t scaled to be little blurbs,” but later which had me thinking, “Maybe it […]