So what does 1500 words look like… hmmm 8 so far. Suggested word count for successful blog post is 1500. How many for a sentence… 16? Well, 1500 divided by 16 equals (gets out computer calculator) about 94. 94 sentences. So that would be 3 sentences a paragraph, and with 94 divided by three (already have calculator out) about 31, so 31 paragraphs… This is why so many posts just regurgitate what the thing is in 12 different ways before getting to the point. If SEO is about 400 words I think I will aim for 600 words. That is a nice number even. Hmmm just over 100.
But now that I see what 100 words looks like (above) if I times that by 10 I would get to 1000 pretty quick. And it didn’t take me that long to write that because not only am I a good writer I can touch type and that goes kinda fast. Really at my 40 words per minute let’s see, 1000 divided by 40 is about 25 minutes. And then if I spend about that same time editing the words — an hour total to write a post? Also, it would be key to have the post be about what I think or something I already know, because if I have to do a lot of research for it that will be a huge time increase.
If I am writing reviews of books I should add the time of reading but not if it was something I wanted to read anyway. So, don’t pick anything to review that I don’t want to read anyway. That would be the most important thing. Writing essays from the book’s point of view or my own rant about something would be even faster because there would be nothing involved besides thinking and writing – now 307.
Let’s change the font and the size too because I am planning on not posting under 16pt font and definitely double spaced. And, lots of people have each sentence be a paragraph, but I think that lessens the impact of
A sentence on its own.
When everyone is doing that… I won’t be doing that. I am on the 2nd page and almost to the 400 number. I am going to keep going at the 14pt Helvetica Neue font before I change it to see the page length in Pages. Hmmm I was thinking of writing in text edit, but no. That is a good place for notes though – better than Notes I think. Oh, I am over 400 now.
Wow. Now that I changed the font and size it got me to the top of page three…hmmm. When I scroll down here it seems to take a bit of time and this is with a pretty wide column width compared to a phone. Do I really think about people reading this on a phone? I guess I should and make it easy for them to share on social media so I don’t have to. Gee, 505. Should I write 95 more words, or just leave it.