Hello fellow Steemers,
After publishing the entire first entry for a sci-fi series I intend to produce centered around Steem in one post, I wondered whether the walls of text discouraged passive surfers from reading my work, and decided to split the entry into smaller bite-sized chunks in separate posts.
However, I don't want to annoy my readers by forcing them to endlesslt click on links to continue reading.
So my question to the community is how much text generally or chunks of paragraph would discourage you from passively reading a post?
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600 words is as much as any one on the internet can read in one go. Not a word more. It's the magic number.
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haha
The point was really to get an idea of how much text people in general are pleased to read through. Perhaps 'words' was not the best word to use, 'text' would perhaps be better. Could be expressed as half a standard microsoft word page for example. Or 100-500 words.
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600 words is the limit. I've done many highly scientific studies into this! Science.
Also for context, it's a little over 300 words per typical word doc page.
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Most people are already bored after reading the title nowadays :)
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oh thanks i always think on 666 words
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I would break it down into chapters if the content isn't too long and see how people respond to that. It might be worth releasing in a few different formats so people can give feedback about what they like best. I will look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Excellent point. I'll release a version of what I've written so far with everything compiled into one post.
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Great answer.
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Agreed, shorter is better and using reader feedback will get the best results
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If anyone is interested they can see my work here: https://steemit.com/steemtales/@positive/part-1-4-the-reflections-of-a-professional-steemer-in-2031-steemtales-everything-written-so-far-in-one-post
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I've wondered the same thing a few times. Personally I don't mind longer posts, particularly in fiction. Putting 1 chapter of your book online at a time seems like a perfectly sound plan, since people looking for fiction will probably be interested in reading for a longer amount of time.
For educational content, it seems like a good rule of thumb would be keeping a post about as long as the average Popular Mechanics article.
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I am not sure how many words are "too much" but most posting platforms explicitly limit the posting characters for a few reasons. One of those reasons being the impact of a post. A post should not be reliant on the total amount of the content, but the quality of the content published. Take a look at your local newspaper for example, each category has a set number of columns that can be written in and the columnist must make his piece as impactful as they can within those limits.
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It depends on what you are writing about, really. If you are creating content suitable for chapters or episodes it'd be ideal to split into several posts - i.e. progression, development or similar. If you on the other hand discuss a specific topic - or range of topics - it might be better to keep it in one. You could always ask your readers for feedback on the matter!
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