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[–]Jesus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So what should I take out then? The part about the New Pearl Harbor? Maybe the part about the Transformative event?

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not Chipit, and he was being kinda rude, but you could just cut it in to pieces each with a smaller focus. I have the same problem when I write, I just want to write an entire book chapter and it all comes out in one long piece. I've found that if you can put forward an 8-paragraph piece, it gets better reception than one that's 30+ paragraphs. Plus it makes for more focused conversations in the comments below the piece.

That said, I have no problem with your long pieces, they're very high quality. But if your goal is maximum readership, publishing in 6 to 8 paragraph chunks might work for you the best.

For instance, I've put out about 200 articles over the years probably. If you look at the ones that did best here: https://www.reddit.com/user/magnora7/submitted/?sort=top

Looking at the self-posts, you can see they're all about a similar length. 5-8 paragraphs, with many paragraphs being quite short, maybe just a sentence or two. I think this is the maximum effective length for a "long form" post, in my experience. So you could break this OP post in to 3 posts in some word document, then each day publish just 1 part. You'd probably get way more readership, your ideas would have a wider audience, and it would take not much more work on your part.

Anyway, just some ideas about writing tactics. I like your writing a lot though, you could change nothing and I'd still be happy, personally. :)

[–]Jesus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe I'll do parts in different posts.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cheers. Just trying to help, from one writer to another.