Long vs. Short Blog Posts
Word Count: 135I’m reminded of a common piece of advice from good development editors in the publishing business about how long a chapter or book should ultimately be: write just enough to cover the material at the appropriate level of detail, then stop.
It’s darn surprising to me how few bloggers explain their motivation behind a link, however, so we are surrounded by a sea of frequent, ridiculously succinct blog entries like “Dave has some good thoughts on blog entry length.”
In summary, I’m not the arbiter of entry length, I can only share my personal preferences and explain why my own weblog entries are atypically long. I think that the most important thing is for you to find a length that matches your topic and writing style, then give yourself the freedom to vary on a per-article basis.
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