[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":68},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-750-words":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":59,"description":60,"extension":61,"meta":62,"navigation":63,"path":64,"seo":65,"stem":66,"__hash__":67},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-750-words.md","Why seven hundred and fifty words",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":53},"minimark",[9,18,21,26,33,36,42,46],[10,11,12,13,17],"p",{},"Seven hundred and fifty words is about three pages of longhand. That is the\nnumber, and the number matters less than what it is ",[14,15,16],"em",{},"for",".",[10,19,20],{},"The first hundred words are throat-clearing. You write about the weather, the\nto-do list, the thing you should have said yesterday. This is not the good part,\nbut it is a necessary part — it is the sound of the pump priming.",[22,23,25],"h2",{"id":24},"getting-past-the-front-of-the-mind","Getting past the front of the mind",[10,27,28,29,32],{},"Somewhere in the second page, if you keep going, the writing stops being ",[14,30,31],{},"about","\nthings and starts being the thing itself. You lose track of the count. A sentence\narrives that you did not plan, and it turns out to be truer than anything you set\nout to say.",[10,34,35],{},"That is why the goal is not fifty words, or a hundred. Those you can do while\nstill performing for yourself. Three pages is long enough that the performance\ngets tired and wanders off, and what is left is closer to the truth.",[37,38,39],"blockquote",{},[10,40,41],{},"The point isn't to write well. It's to write at all — and to find, page after\npage, that the writing has been quietly rearranging you.",[22,43,45],{"id":44},"and-then-you-stop","And then you stop",[10,47,48,49,52],{},"The other half of the number is that it ",[14,50,51],{},"ends",". Reach the goal and the day's\nwriting is done; there is no bonus for more. A practice you can finish is a\npractice you will come back to tomorrow. That is the whole game: not one heroic\nsession, but the next one, and the one after that.",{"title":54,"searchDepth":55,"depth":55,"links":56},"",2,[57,58],{"id":24,"depth":55,"text":25},{"id":44,"depth":55,"text":45},"2026-07-10","Not a nice round number, and not an accident either. On the length that is long enough to get past yourself.","md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-750-words",{"title":5,"description":60},"blog\u002Fwhy-750-words","RNjEZGqVupa8i2Gm1q8AELCadFm2j27qrY9CEsiWmTc",1784109390982]