Great poll, Wendi - I voted for the third option, but the way I see it is this:
If a writer is posting frequently - for example, daily, or several times a week - then I like the posts to be short. I subscribe to three daily posters whose work I like, and whose posts are very short.
Long reads can seem very daunting. If someone's posting three times a week and each post is a 15-or-more-minute read, well, that's perhaps a time commitment I might not manage, at least not immediately. But I love the words I subscribe to read, and heck, I still want to read them.
I post every Saturday and every other Wednesday, and I hope the volume of words I'm sending out into the world isn't too overwhelming. My own next two posts are both a little longer than what I feel is my 'ideal' length, so I'm fretting about those a little...!
But like everything, it's a balance, I guess! Difficult to call.
And: 'Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.' I'm going to be thinking about this for a while! Thank you for the brain food. 😊
Great poll, Wendi - I voted for the third option, but the way I see it is this:
If a writer is posting frequently - for example, daily, or several times a week - then I like the posts to be short. I subscribe to three daily posters whose work I like, and whose posts are very short.
Long reads can seem very daunting. If someone's posting three times a week and each post is a 15-or-more-minute read, well, that's perhaps a time commitment I might not manage, at least not immediately. But I love the words I subscribe to read, and heck, I still want to read them.
I post every Saturday and every other Wednesday, and I hope the volume of words I'm sending out into the world isn't too overwhelming. My own next two posts are both a little longer than what I feel is my 'ideal' length, so I'm fretting about those a little...!
But like everything, it's a balance, I guess! Difficult to call.
And: 'Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.' I'm going to be thinking about this for a while! Thank you for the brain food. 😊