13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction

podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.

If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.

Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.

Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.

How do you know? I'm innocent.

Are any of us truly innocent?

Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.

Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that short is good. In many cases, aiming to make

things more compact will, in fact, make them better and make everyone happier too.

I spent some early years of my career writing frequently for publications that were known for their

brevity. I wrote op-eds for USA Today and I wrote tiny, bite-sized features for readers digest.

A publication whose founding purpose was to make things shorter.

For both publications, I was always trying to figure out how to say things in fewer words.

Yes, sometimes some nuance was lost. But other times, a concept was honed down to its essence,

or an argument made stronger. When you think about the shortest way to make your point,

you consider every word. Some turn out to be needless. So, best to omit them.

It's a lesson I've taken with me since. One reason this podcast is so short.

If I can share a tip in a few minutes, why not do so? It's also a lesson I think is helpful

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