Less is More... please.

I know a lot of friends with blogs, and truly, these people are terrific writers. I love reading their prose, but I have to fall out of love at around 500 words. I try to keep my blogs short. If one has ever reached 800 words, I probably should have had my writing privileges suspended for a week. People, at least not this people, do not have time to read a novella in blogs. Chances are if they are reading one blog, they're reading more. Do you truly want me to have to make the choice between reading your adventures and someone else's? I care, really I do, but I don't have unlimited time to care; not with so many other blogs vying for my attention. The more succinct your blog, the more likely I am to comment. Isn't that one thing that every blogger hopes to see when they've poured their heart and soul out into cyberspace... that lone soul who reaches out, grabs their hand and says "I HEAR YOU!"?

Look, I read The New York Times every morning, but if I have to cut short my reading time of a story that may contain information I need to know in order to live a lawful and healthy life because it's simply going to take me 15 minutes to read the entire thing, what makes you think I can read through all of yours? I'm still catching up to the new Facebook, haven't downloaded a new update for my cell phone and should probably be unthawing something for dinner. I got other things going on, and they're going on all at once. Just_like_everyone_else_I_know.

So please, in an effort to build your audience and increase your comments and "likes," give us the Reader's Digest version. It's worked for them for years.