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Have You Ever Written Short-Form?

What is it all about & why is there so much attraction? Well, to keep a long story short… it’s short😂❗

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😊Short-Form writing is about FOCUS😊.

Focusing Your Mind…

Conveying your point in just 150 words is a skill every successful writer should attempt to master. Each and every single word in a sentence should always feel necessary to the main point you are trying to convey, don’t simply use words as ‘fillers’ for a blank screen, to make it look better.

Although I can certainly understand that a blank page screen or a blank sheet of paper in your hands can be both daunting, and anxiety-provoking. This has been a common difficulty that I have witnessed over the many years that I was working as a mental health nurse. That blank sheet represents panic & emptiness to the person tasked with putting words on it. And of course, it is well known that anxiety rises with these problems appearing.

💥Blank paper➡feelings of emptiness➡despair (ahh, what do I write?)➡negative thoughts (I don’t know, I’m useless)➡increasing anxiety❗

⤵LEADING TO⤵

❔ So… I’ll write…

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Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium
Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium

Written by Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium

Psychiatric Nurse Writer. Owner of Creative Passions, The Shortform, No Shame, World of Fiction publications, and co-editor for The Chocolate River.

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