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More is less

After the 200 word limit was dropped I decided to loosen my own targets as well. Before, I tried to keep also as close as possible from the upper bound to 200 words, not just keeping it as minimum. Back then I rarely wrote more than 250 words.

Now it had been a while with the new rules. Looking back there has been a few posts a bit below 150 words and few more below the magic 200. But what's interesting that there has been lot more of those 250 plus posts, multiple posts over 300 words, even a couple of post with over 400 words.

At least the worry that I would write less if I allowed that to myself has been proven wrong. Instead ot seems I'm writing more than ever. There are still those moments when even the 200 feels too much. But now I don't have to artificially stretch them with unnecessary filler words.

I don't either need to watch my word quota that closely anymore. That means I don't have to use words so sparsely anymore either. But will that lead to inferior results? With all the extra words and winding sentences could lead to posts which aren't that clean and neat anymore. 

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