Comments on: Short Posts – Battling Bloggers Block

By: Rajan Zachariah

Rajan Zachariah — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:48:11 +0000

Hey you are rite.
I generally used to write full text blog explaining each and every nook of the stuff that i’wud be writing about.

thankz for the tip, i’ll make use of it.

By: Paul -V-

Paul -V- — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:36:31 +0000

The “If you don’t have much to say, don’t say much” rule usually works for me to overcome writers block.

Most days, I have no idea what I’m going to write about. When I get stuck, I just commit to one sentence. Once the sentence is written, the rest flows fairly quickly.

After a few hours, I look up and: Lo! An essay!

By: MyCapitalWeb.com LLC » Writing short posts

MyCapitalWeb.com LLC » Writing short posts — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:47:54 +0000

[...] If you have a blog, the pressure to write longer than you should can be pretty intense. Darren Rowse of Pro-Blogger urges readers to resist the urge. Don’t write more than necessary. [...]

By: Bill Ferris

Bill Ferris — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:10:09 +0000

This is something that I really struggled with for a long time. I wanted to make every post spectacular – full of research and opinion. Part of me thought that “what if this is the first post a reader sees – it has to be special.” Inevitably I’d go 3 days without posting because I’d never have time to finish the post. In the process I’d shortchange and alienate the readers I already had.

I still do the long posts when the material and my time warrants it, but I’ve finally come to the point where I’m comfortable doing a one to two paragraph post.

The other tactic related to this, is that when I know I don’t have time to do a long in depth post, I’ll break it up into several shorter posts. It keeps content coming for a couple days until I can think of something else to write.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:15:14 +0000

RC – yeah there is an exception to every rule and Steve is one of them.

There’s nothing wrong with long posts – I have written my fair share. However mixing it up can be a good idea for many blogs too.

By: RC

RC — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:05:36 +0000

I would love to know Steve Pavlina’s comment on this:-) (his posts are notoriously long but his blog very successful). I guess sometimes the rule “do the opposite of what everyone does” just works.

By: Salman

Salman — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:16:12 +0000

The benefit of a short post is that you can focus on any given point more clearly as oppose to raming 3-4 points into one post. Breaking a long post into multiple post can also be extracted from this tip.

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:37:57 +0000

Very good idea. I always want to go into some depth with my posts, and I’ve realized I simply don’t have the time for it! So I’m trying to do more shorter posts.