Short-sentences essays: need to write more

Been a long time. Short-sentences. They're good. Make you succinct. Can't write without thinking. Used to write more. Not recently, unfortunately. What happened? Laziness, boredom. So many excuses. An armory of them. Lists, I'm used to. FAQ's, I've done well. Poems, you betcha. Even recipes. Or grocery lists. But this style? Forgotten. Too hard. Compresses the content. No room for fillers. This blog is fillers. This limitation is hard. Writing is slow. Need to think. Brain needs to work. Fingers cannot think here. They usually do. Brain gets lazy. Fingers get shy. No more short-sentences.

There's more. Is it succinct? Really? Or more poem-like? Easy to convey message? Who even knows! That's a problem. Could an essay go like this? If I needed to communicate? Don't think so. Unlikely, anyway. Maybe it's form over function. Communication's the goal.

Short sentences don't flow. Unlike poems. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Where's the fun? Where's the verve? Jagged, sharp, rough. That's the form. Harder than poetry. Not as cool.

But. It's good practice. Mixing up sentence structure is important. I haven't practiced craft. Only the motions. I'm a laborer, a manual worker. No understanding of fundamentals. Barely any operational knowledge. The fingers can move, yeah. Is that enough? Unlikely.

There's a need. Improving writing helps personally. Work benefits too. Fiction-writing progresses. So many small wins. This is an exercise. To improve oneself. The world moves on.

I must too.