The other day, during a terrific rain storm complete with thunder and a truly torrential downpour, I had coffee with Catherine.
Catherine is an awesome web designer. She also has fabulous taste in WordPress Themes (go look, I’ll wait; see?)
While we dried off and enjoyed being not-out-in-the-rain, we talked about blogging. She mentioned that the best thing to happen to her writing in ages was Twitter; it forced you to simplify. To shave out irrelevancies. One idea, one tweet. Hold the adjectives.
This inspired her.
To keep her writing relevant, punchy, and on-point, she decided to twitter-up her blog, and create a 140-words-per-post-challenge.
I love it! Not only does it keep people who love going on and on from going on and on, but …
Indeed.
(Yes: I’m joining her in her quest to keep the web less wordy. Starting… now!)
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[...] Renee excitedly jumped to her feet, her mai tai spilling across the other occupants of the sunny patio. This was the best idea she had ever heard. I assured her I had even better ones, but she was having none of that, waving her goodbyes as she rushed off to write her own 140-word post. [...]