'Stuart, I absolutely agree with you that a 1000-word post wi...'
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Modern Life is no longer updated.
After a long hiatus due to increased working commitment, lack of inspiration, and unclear goals: I've decided not to rekindle this blog but to start anew in more fertile soil. Modern Life will remain online as-is for the forseeable future.
I'm now posting at my new blog, User Interfaced.
Arjun Muralidharan wrote:
Stuart, I absolutely agree with you that a 1000-word post will not get read. That's simple marketing.
But I can also tell you that I've seen 40-word posts that were a waste of time and some 300-word reads that were worth it.
What I'm trying to get at is that you can engage readers and get away with a lengthy text, but only if you do it very well.
A 1000-word post is probably not going to be "on the point" all the time, and it hardly ever takes more than 250 words to get a good point across.
Besides that, more than one concise point or idea is too much for a single blog post, anyway. If you explroe too much, write a book.
Blog posts should be like subsections of a book.