Let’s Break All the Rules of Blogging

Yet another piece on writing advice.

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My guilty pleasure is reading about writing advice on Medium.

I have to admit, I’ve learned a few neat things to make my writing more appealing online. Nevertheless, I struggle to follow all the advice that’s put out there everyday. It scares me a little.

I’m a published writer and I’ve been writing for almost 20 years, yet I find all these rules a bit daunting. To me, writing is a form of expression. What’s the point of expression, if you can’t break a few rules along the way.

No More Trying to Write “8 min” Reads

I don’t like writing long posts. As much as I try, I can’t seem to get past the 4 to 5 min threshold. Anything I need to say can pretty much be said within a 1000 words. It’s not like I’m trying to write a paper on general relativity.

I’m all for longer posts, and I do admire people who can write them. I just can’t do it.

In fact, I’ve got another blog where I’ve committed to writing posts of 350 words or less. They’re short, to the point and I enjoy writing them… everyday.

I know the way Medium is set up now, the longer the read time, the more you earn supposedly. But, from what I can make out, people just…