Replying to: Publish short post, by Muliama
Replying to: Writing within limits, by Robert Birming
Replying to: Is there an optimum post length?, by Forking Mad
Sometimes there are conversations in the “blogosphere,” ideas spread and move back and forth and it’s all linked together. Sometimes, it’s more subtle than that. Sometimes, you happen to notice from your particular vantage point, a sort of resonance, a few people who are not replying to each other—who may or may not be aware of each other—all touching on similar topics.
First I saw Muliama’s post. I agree. Short posts are perfectly fine. I write short posts and people don’t seem to mind . Which is good because I’d post a lot less if they all had to be long.
Frankly, I don’t know how to write long posts. I don’t think I could ever write a novel. I simply don’t know how to make my ideas take up that much space.
I don’t care about SEO. I don’t care about ad revenue. So as far as I’m concerned, the optimum post length is simply the one that gets the post written and published.
Now lately, for Blaugust, I have also been putting an artificial length limit on my posts, to about a half sheet of paper. Even for me this is a limit I run into easily. I have found it to be a useful limit, one that forces me to hone into exactly the point I want to make. (It helps that such a short length makes revising and rewriting easy.)
That’s all for now. Keep up the blogging, you’re doing great!