Member-only story
Why Shortform Stories Are The Worst
And I wish there was a toggle to hide them…
Evolution happened over many millions of years or so says science. God created Heaven and Earth in six days, or so says religion. Every book you’ve ever read was longer than ten pages, and while Harry Potter makes magic seem effortless and instantaneous, writing the books was anything but. What I’m trying to say is, there are no short-form stories. The atomic blast at Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have swept across the cities in a split second, the story of the disaster, however, spans many thousands of pages. There are no short stories, just lazy writers.
It’s lazy, and you’re wrong!
Since the dawn of Twitter, people have become experts at being bad at writing anything longer than a few hundred characters and therefore also lazy enough to read anything that spans across two paragraphs or more. Others went even further and decided to bastardize the meaning of paragraphs and sentences and just call sentences paragraphs. 🙄 And thus was born the three-paragraph article composed of exactly three sentences, akin to a three-stroke handjob with no happy-ending. Lazy writer. Unsatisfied reader. 😢
The premise is wrong. In video — where the concept of short-form comes from — things are very different. The incredibly obvious…
