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Thoughts jagging, hurtling, running down myriad dead ends. Non-linear ADD once again. I think half the problem - and it's a huge problem for a supposedly aspiring writer - is that I've unwittingly conditioned myself to think in minute bursts of trivial ephemera. 140 characters for a Tweet, 420 for a Facebook status. I'm always all for condensing my writing, but too much thought condensing isn't good. Must get into mental longhand mode if I'm ever going to scribe my way into literary self-sufficiency.

The above is 422 characters without spaces, 505 characters with spaces. It's a start....