Short papers are harder

Jill Walker despairs of her Hypertext '02 short paper:

God, if I feel this way finishing a two page paper, what's it going to be like finishing my whole dissertation?

Fortunately, the dissertation is likely to be much easier. Short papers are hard, and the current two-page limit is, in my opinion, impossible. I spent an hour yesterday, trying to trim a text that was one inch too long. And I wrote an entire short paper that we decided, on further review, ought not to be submitted at all.

It's hard to write tight. It's unreasonably hard to write unreasonably tight.