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Is Long-Form Writing and Content Still Relevant?
These days short-form content saturates social media. It screams for our attention left and right with its visual pizzazz. Whereas long-form writing and its penchant to guide us to be still, to read and reflect, where does it fit in? I don’t want to write! Grrr… I admit. It’s another attempt at writing something up…
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