Congratulations! You’ve had a brilliant idea. Now you’d like to share it!

But how? The answer is probably: words. The marketplace of ideas has shown strong year-over-year growth in the “musical” and “visual arts” mediums, but let’s face it, friend: Written and spoken language remains the number 1 preferred method to transfer a thought pattern from your head into my head.

It’s a great time for idea-sharers. “Blogs”, “tweets”, “eye-ems”, “face book messages”, the “online forum”, “electronic mail”, “web pages”, and more! And if you’re old, you might remember such classic technologies as “typewriters”, or “pencils”.

Lots of ideas, and lots of ways to share them. Great! But also: crushingly oversaturated.

So make your words count! Learn the fine art of editing! Don’t know how? It’s easy! Our FREE modern guidelines show you how:

Step 1: Don’t say anything. If you have nothing to say, don’t say it! You’re already half way to whatever award it is they give to great editors.

Step 2: Wait and see if someone else will say it. They probably will, leaving you—who cleverly said nothing—with more time for the good life.

Step 3: Say it on Twitter. Okay. You’ve got a really great idea and you think the world should know. I guarantee you it will fit in 140 characters. Force yourself to find a way. The world will wait.

Step 4: Fine, use 2 Tweets if you really need to.

Step 5: Still here? Right! Then you have an idea that’s both interesting and has depth. I like your style! Now you can move on to a blog post or some other, more verbose instrument.

Step 6: Delete, delete, delete. Also: delete. Just because you need more than 140 characters to say it doesn’t mean you get free rein. Please remember the old quote: “I wrote a long paper because I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

Step 7: Climb the bandwidth ladder only as necessary. Blog post too confining? Then maybe you need a whole website to communicate your idea. Still not enough to contain your boundless creativity? It might be time to start your own The Show.

The point is this: make every word fight for its life. If you can say it in less, don’t say it in more.

I’ll probably read this tomorrow and wish it wasn’t so long.