: Re: How do you write short-short nonfiction? I need to write an opinion, narrative of only 80 words in length. Examples: write about your fondest childhood memory/comment: homework should be banned,

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Eighty words isn't an essay. It's a few sentences - a paragraph or two. Enough to express one short idea, but not to develop or explore it.

You should therefore have a clear idea of what it is you want to say, and say just that. If you wish to provide an example to illustrate your point, pick one that would be familiar to the reader, and thus fit into one sentence.

Background, conflicting interpretations, discussion, consequences - no room for that.

(The above is exactly 80 words.)

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