Friday, December 12, 2008
Too Many Posts
I have been noticing that on some days several of my fellow bloggers will post two, three, or more posts in a single day, all are short and singly pointed. Now I petition you please just write these things down and save them in a draft rather than publishing multiple posts per day. I find trying to follow such rampant posting tiring at best as I have to hunt through the change log of my subscriptions to find five posts in the past day by two people all within hours or even minutes of each other. This is my chosen rant for today. Perhaps it is a style thing, maybe I am doing it wrong by actually drafting posts, or by including more than a paragraph's worth of topics and information. Maybe its the starving and neglected English major side of me but please folks. Then again I suppose you can do what you will, just know that if you have anything you actually hope for people to read on a casual basis it should not be hidden in a thousand little posts. Though I suppose the disadvantage of not posting individual and disassociated paragraphs as posts does make finding small snippets of information more difficult... but only if they are labeled in such a way as to make them that way. Or if your readers obsessively read your blog every hour than I suppose that also works. Just a warning though, dance to your own beat but do not forget to try to meet the reader half way, otherwise you are preaching to a deaf audience. It is a writer's duty to aid the reader in seeing, feeling, and understanding what is written, this does not mean that you must be like all the other writers, but rather that in your own way you must help the reader to see and understand what you want them to, otherwise you will loose them, and once lost a reader is a hard thing to regain. Now Length can also become a problem, as people may be discouraged by the daunting task of reading a long post, at which point perhaps it should be split, but a better option may be just to cut it short and write only what needs be written. On that note, I shall take my own advice and bid you ado.
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i like to write when the spirit hits me, and my posts are about totally different things, so i feel that saving them for one daily post would be less fun and would be more like a list of unrelated paragraphs. each one still shows up in your dashboard reader, so i don't think that makes it hard to follow :)
ReplyDeleteI try to write like I talk and think... I believe that it lets my readers get to know me more more as a real person not as official writer. So if that means I have 7 posts on one day, I'm totally okay with that. But then again I'm not and English Major so I have nothing to live up to! :)
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