Short and Sweet

One of the challenges of blogging is being concise. I have found that I am conditioned to a word count of around 1000 words. That is the target length for articles I write for Today's Garden Center. Great for a magazine, bad for blogging. So my new year's resolution (2010) is to pare my blogs down to around 250 to 300 words. Of course it would help if you could discipline yourself to brevity. So the headline needs to work harder and the focus needs to be razor sharp.

Of course this means I can't reuse phrases like "Of course..." or stray to far from the point of the post. This will of course restrict the clever factor, but perhaps it will result in more meaningful messages. That means I will either focus my thoughts and my message or run out of