Comments on: Voxtropolis Tip: Pacing Yourself http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/ from parke Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: One life. » Blog Archive » God is the ultimate missionary… http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-65 One life. » Blog Archive » God is the ultimate missionary… Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:59:52 +0000 http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-65 [...] Inspired by Sam’s mosaic values discussion, i’ll be posting some missional values i wrote up a while back. I’ll be using trackback’s for the first time and posting in chunk the next few days as Parke suggests. They way they’re written up is not in stone, but the convictions behind them are very foundational to me. Please feel free to critique and comment. [...] […] Inspired by Sam’s mosaic values discussion, i’ll be posting some missional values i wrote up a while back. I’ll be using trackback’s for the first time and posting in chunk the next few days as Parke suggests. They way they’re written up is not in stone, but the convictions behind them are very foundational to me. Please feel free to critique and comment. […]

]]> By: Erin http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-60 Erin Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:12:40 +0000 http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-60 Thanks for putting these ideas out here. You're right-- too often blog entries are so long that they scare away readers who would otherwise be interested. More tags are great, but it's an interesting balance to strike. Some feeds I susbcribe to give me a sentence intro and then the rest is behind a more tag, I prefer a paragraph or two so i can decide if I'm intrested or not. Thanks for putting these ideas out here. You’re right– too often blog entries are so long that they scare away readers who would otherwise be interested.

More tags are great, but it’s an interesting balance to strike. Some feeds I susbcribe to give me a sentence intro and then the rest is behind a more tag, I prefer a paragraph or two so i can decide if I’m intrested or not.

]]> By: Larry http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-59 Larry Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:47:08 +0000 http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-59 Another good way: make sure every word counts. Put only the words that count on the page. PIck up each one as if it's a hot coal so that you only pick the important ones. Pretend you pay for each word and you want to avoid a big bill. Use just the right one. If you can replace three with one, do it. Avoid redundant, pleonastic, excessive and verbose additions of sesquipedalian verbiage whose only intent and purpose is to impress people. At the same time, tell the story. Use enough words to do so. Some stories are longer than others. Make it good and people will read it. Build your story with care. Another good way: make sure every word counts. Put only the words that count on the page. PIck up each one as if it’s a hot coal so that you only pick the important ones. Pretend you pay for each word and you want to avoid a big bill. Use just the right one. If you can replace three with one, do it. Avoid redundant, pleonastic, excessive and verbose additions of sesquipedalian verbiage whose only intent and purpose is to impress people.

At the same time, tell the story. Use enough words to do so. Some stories are longer than others. Make it good and people will read it. Build your story with care.

]]> By: Nathan http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-58 Nathan Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:30:55 +0000 http://parke.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/17/voxtropolis-tip-pacing-yourself/#comment-58 Parke, thanks for those words of advice. I catch myself writing too much sometimes. Splitting up a big post into several smaller posts is really smart! On the other hand, I subscribe to a few blogs that can be annoyingly short. They often write very encouraging and uplifting words, so I subscribed to the feed. I'm ok with the paragraph posts, but the one or two sentence posts are a bit odd to me. Thanks for those "tips" on writing more reader friendly! Parke, thanks for those words of advice. I catch myself writing too much sometimes. Splitting up a big post into several smaller posts is really smart! On the other hand, I subscribe to a few blogs that can be annoyingly short. They often write very encouraging and uplifting words, so I subscribed to the feed. I’m ok with the paragraph posts, but the one or two sentence posts are a bit odd to me.

Thanks for those “tips” on writing more reader friendly!

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