It’s another anniversary at Ramblin’ with Roger. If 14 days is a fortnight, is fourteen years a fortnight of years? Probably not. Don’t care. (Not to be confused with Fortnite, which I’ve never played.)
You may have noticed that I’ve changed the look of the blog in the past month or so. This was not done for aesthetic reasons but rather operational ones. My old design was clashing with some PHP function – too boring to explain, frankly.
So I changed to some WordPress in-house style called Twenty Sixteen. I like that it does the pull quotes, that the comments are on the side, and the basic clean look. I need to tweak it eventually.
Of course, earlier posts may look “off” – pictures too wide, notably. But I don’t foresee changing the previous output any time soon.
I came across this article called The State of Blogging: Post Length and Publishing Frequency Trends. “The proportion of bloggers who typically write posts under 500 words has steadily declined since 2014.” The vast majority of my posts are under that threshold.
“…while the proportion of bloggers who typically write posts longer than 1,000 words has steadily increased.” I doubt I have five posts TOTAL out of over 5000 that have over a thousand words. I am a blogging dinosaur; so be it.
I am occasionally reminded why I blog. One of the factors was the Inaugural post of the late Steve Gerber, who wrote, among other things, The Defenders, Howard the Duck, and Man-Thing.
He wrote back on April 4, 2005: “There is only one characteristic that distinguishes writers from non-writers: writers write. (That’s why there’s no such thing as an ‘aspiring writer.’ A writer can aspire to sell or publish, but only non-writers aspire to write.)”
Less than a month later, I started this blog, which proves that I am susceptible to suggestion. It makes me a good hypnosis subject and a dogged daily blogger.
Image by wisconsinpics from Pixabay
Congrats, Dear One…….I wish I had been reading you from your first blog, But, bingeing all of them recently was fun, too………having recently started a blog advertising it will only take a few minutes to read turns out to be harder than being longer….distilling to the point is a challenge most of the time……..It’s good for me…….When I was in seminary I got as a sermon teacher the first woman preaching teacher that they had ever hired…..She was also a retired Marine boot camp instructor…..She was GOOD!……….Best thing she ever said that scared all the men in the class was this: “If you can’t get to the point in 15 minutes or less for people listening or reading you…don’t be a minister…quit right now and save ALL your future audiences a lot of grief….” As I was the first woman student in that school’s preaching class, I adored her…
I like that, “writers, write” very simple.
Personally, I am not into wordy blogs. I am kind of simple. Show me a photo.
The sweet spot for me is somewhere between 250 and 300.