Sapience,

Every tenth day of the month, I am given some copies of the public news posts to look over.

And every month, I notice an unsettling tendency.

The scrolls grow longer.

Not the messages within them.

Not the time it takes for me to read their contents.

The scrolls themselves.

This month, I got a scroll so long its far end was hanging off the edge of my desk.

Two months ago, I had one that reached the floor of my study.

I could not even finish reading that scroll.

After I placed it on the desk, it slid down and fell into a heap on the floor.

I am now using its back side to pen this missive.

It is an alarming trend, you see.

The longer the scrolls become, the more skins they take to make.

Eventually, we will either run out of writing material, or its price will soar beyond what I am willing to pay for.

Apparently, my scribes already have trouble shopping for large enough scrolls in the market.

I can understand their plight.

Even my own hands get tired getting through a piece of parchment this long.

I am not even sure where they get skins this big.

But I digress.

My memory tells me that this was not a common trend until recently.

And a lot of people still condense their thoughts enough to form proper paragraphs.

So I started thinking:

Why do people write like this?

And then I realised.

It is not because they hate Nature and want all life butchered for skins and paper.

Nor because they are Prosperan worshippers who want to drive the scroll prices up.

But because they believe it makes their points sound better.

Grander.

Someone started putting their words down in this way, and everyone else followed the example.

It is like a finishing statement at the end of a missive.

Except now every sentence can be a finishing statement.

Even better if those statements are getting spaced out across the scroll.

This way, every word is in the centre of attention.

Or, at least, this is what this grook thinks the line of thought here is.

To this one, it is just more effort spent reading the texts.

And I cannot say the abundance of vague and generic rhetorics helps there a lot.

There was a reason our predecessors wrote in full paragraphs, you see.

Not because they did not have enough parchment.

But because if everything is the focal point, nothing is.

I could write more on this subject.

But I am already running out of the scroll's length.

And I cannot be bothered to start looking for an even longer scroll to use.

So, in closing, I will urge this of you:

For the sake of whatever ethos you plan to preach over a writing medium,

Stop writing like this.

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Sarapin, in the year 1012 AF.