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Unattainable Ideal
Right on , e-r. Wisdom from one who knows. Thank you for sharing all that goodness.
el-remmen and I think similarly on this one. When I first started working on the story hour, I went to Piratecat's thread, found I post that I thought was just on the long side, copied it into Word and ran wordcount.Tsillanabor said:What would you (plural you-anyone can answer) consider an ideal post length? I have had comments from my players reading my Story Hour (Pimpage-it is in the sig) that some of my posts are simply too intimidatingly long.
Just did the same thing with my Story Hour. First post was over 1700, another was over 2300!spyscribe said:el-remmen and I think similarly on this one. When I first started working on the story hour, I went to Piratecat's thread, found I post that I thought was just on the long side, copied it into Word and ran wordcount.
It was about 1,100 words.
So I decided my posts should be between 900 and 1000 words. Much shorter than that and you run the risk of putting up updates that don't actually advance the story. A lot longer, and I think it becomes easy to alienate the reader who just wants to pop in for a quick read.
Tsillanabor said:What would you (plural you-anyone can answer) consider an ideal post length? I have had comments from my players reading my Story Hour (Pimpage-it is in the sig) that some of my posts are simply too intimidatingly long.