Should you "write short"?

Ever since I joined Substack, the best practice I have heard was to “write short”. It started as shorter than 1,500 words, and then it reduced to 800-1,100 words. Is that good advice, though?

Hi friends,

Ever since I joined Substack, the best practice I have heard was to “write short”. It started as shorter than 1,500 words, and then it reduced to 800-1,100 words. Probably in a year it will be a tweet, but I tend to write long. When I first came to Substack every post I wrote was 5,000+ words. Since then, I’ve been interspersing long posts w…