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Mosope Eunice's avatar

Thnk you for this!

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Pamela Wang, PhD's avatar

Short posts also work a lot better for me than my long posts.

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Anna Gibson's avatar

This is a masterpeice and packed with value about formatting. Thank you so much.

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Frederick Woodruff's avatar

Sadly: True. Thanks for this.

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Susanne McMillan's avatar

Makes me re-evaluate my writing. Thank you.

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Kate Dreston's avatar

I write 1-minute devotionals and I agree 100% on all your points!

Who has time to read long format?

I also do 5-minute devotionals because who has an hour to devote to a podcast?????

Great tips!

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Jamie Northrup's avatar

This was great Burk, love the coffee test. Going to share this in my newsletter :)

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Hiruni Jayawardena's avatar

Thank you for the great article.

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Kurt Schmitt's avatar

I agree, except this isn't recent. This is how people have always read blogs and newsletters. The NNGroup studied this starting in the 1990s and it's just how people read online (or rather don't read). They skim and scan. Continued studies have shown pretty much the same behavior over many years. Not much has changed.

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