I keep seeing people advocate for shorter content.
(including many I respect)
Tight and concise. Shorter sentences. Less is more. Limited attention spans, and all of that.
Yet movies keep getting longer. Three-hour stage plays have become the norm. People will binge their favorite TV programs for hours on end in single sittings.
We don't crave short. We demand great.
In fact, if you've gotten this far, I suspect there's a reason. You could have stopped at four words. I suspect many did. But some of you kept going.
And that's what you want your writing to do: invite the reader to keep going.
My best writing instructors never put word-count parameters on assignments — minimum or maximum. "It needs to be as long as it needs to be," they would suggest. "No longer, no shorter."
Make it great. It might be short and sweet; it might be deep and immersive. But it needs to be great, first and foremost.