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# The Skill of Short, Sharp Blogging
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2012/10/the_skill_of_short_sharp_blogging/
- Published: 2012-10-31T16:00:56.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:47:37.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging

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Antony Mayfield picked up Steph’s post – and my follow-up – about [bringing back the blog](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2012/10/29/10-day-back-to-blogging-challenge/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – and [keeping it short](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/10/the%5Fback%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fblog%5Fchallenge.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). But he laments his [struggles in keeping things concise](http://www.antonymayfield.com/2012/10/31/short-posts-and-three-experts-of-the-form/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Although, I am not off to a very good start. This post is already expanding to a medium-size post…

Short, sharp blogging (in my experience, at least) is built on two principles:

1. Connect the thought “that’s interesting” with the action of writing the blog post as closely as you can. \*Don’t leave tabs mouldering in your browser, don’t leave draft posts in your drafts folder. Get it done, and get out. \*
2. Be very clear what the point you want to make is, make it and quit. \*Over a while, the various pots will built into a narrative of the issue you’re exploring – and you can bring that narrative to a peak, if not a climax, by writing that longer post. But save that until the point where the creative damn is going to burst, by letting some pressure out over time with those short posts. \*

Short form blogging is a matter of time disciple and focus – but it’s rewarding, useful to the reader, and really refreshing in an age when too many “problogs” read like serialised instruction manuals…