Gah. I just finished writing my first "assignment" for my uni course and went into the website discussion board to submit it. It is essentially an introduction of myself, why I chose the course and commentary on an article of my choice.
This one's supposed to be published in the forum so everyone can see it. So I can see everyone else's that have already been submitted. What I've written is about 10 times(!) as long as what everyone else has written.
What do I do? Cut down / Submit anyway / Publish as a blog post and submit just three paragraphs of it?
Did not see this coming… 😬
And no, there is no specification of expected length.
Some great advice in this thread. Thank you. In the end I have now shortened it to about 40% of its original length. It's better. I just want to avoid being "that guy". But I suppose it's inevitable.