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There is some good advice in here, some which I myself stumbled across after trial and error. But 39 points?! May be it's just me but whenever I see a list wi
by proxygeek 8y ago
There is some good advice in here, some which I myself stumbled across after trial and error.
But 39 points?!
May be it's just me but whenever I see a list with over 10 items, I just get so tired when thinking about it. Ultimately it just gets filed away, never to be referred again.
I wish the post started out saying "9 things to get your writing style better" instead of "...39 ways to make your blog..."
In fact, even 10 is a long list. These days I try not to make lists more than 5 items long. Even shorter when it comes to list of things to do. Of course, each item can have some sub-items, if needed.
Edit: auto-correct mistakes and rewording
- SyneRyder 8y agoI was about to criticize you for not strengthening your attention span, that maybe sometimes you really do need 39 points... but on closer reading, I agree this could have been trimmed down. At the very least, 34 - 36 are variations of the same theme, and I'd simplify the entire section on humor down to just point 25: "It's better to be clear than funny." But it seems like this was written as 39 points that help the author when they write, and it just happens that many of the points that help them are also useful to others. There's a lot of really good stuff in here & I wouldn't dismiss it just on length.
- calcifer 8y agoI suppose this is a natural consequence of the Twitter generation where attention spans longer than 2 minutes are for firmly in the realm of old people but no, if a 15 minute read gets you "so tired when thinking about it", the problem isn't with the author.