Many don’t take the opportunity to write. Write for oneself, write ideas for personal notes, journal, or even publish. And writing is a great medium to think through and solve problems in your head.
Because many don’t take the opportunity to write, the only writing one does is through email.
One reason I’ve found people write long emails is because they are using emails as a medium to think out loud through a problem. Thus, the thinking and problem-solving end up being done within the email.
One will spend several paragraphs in an email thinking through a problem and arriving at a conclusion, cluttering up the recipient’s inbox.
Spend more time writing for yourself to think through problems, even if that writing doesn’t go anywhere other than in your notes.
Then, when you write your emails, keep them brief. Strikeout all the “thinking” you are doing in your emails and get to the point in one or two sentences.
The recipient will thank you.