When I started ccpopculture roughly six months ago, I set myself the goal of ensuring every post was exactly 200 words. This was for a few reasons:
- It would hopefully avoid my tendency to be overly verbose; too often I’ve had a good idea for an article and abandoned many thousand words in,
- it would give my blog a “hook,”
- and, most importantly, it would be a blog that I’d read.
The experiment has gone pretty well. The restriction of the word limit has – as the cliché goes – bred creativity. It’s also been a problem: writing in detail about an album, or music festival, or an episode of Game of Thrones is truly difficult with so few words. With that in mind, I thought I’d use this post to announce some changes. While, for the most part, I’ll stick to 200 words, I’m introducing two features that’ll hopefully stick around:
- Extended Cut: longer posts for more substantial ideas. Thinking in the vicinity of a thousand words.
- Double Feature: 400 words considering and contrasting two items of pop culture. I’m mostly thinking film – original vs sequel or remake, that sort of thing.
- Plus, “new” name!
Thoughts on these features are appreciated!
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Sounds good to me!
Thanks! Been good having you around sharing your thoughts!
Good lord! I have only 187 posts and I’ve had mine twice as long as you, well done 😀
New stuff sounds good 😀
Well, mine are much less extensive than yours! And there are definitely some crap ones in there, I haven’t read any of yours that I’d describe as such 🙂 Thanks for following along – I think you’re my most frequent commenter so far, so the support is appreciated!
Haha you should read some of my first ones, they where terrible haha xD
And why wouldn’t I check them out with your glowing recommendation? 🙂
Haha you would choose poorly 😀
Hey man, congrats on the 200th post milestone. I think both of your feature ideas sound cool, but Double Feature in particular sounds right up my alley. Can’t wait to read them!
Thanks Alex! I just put up my first Double Feature yesterday (The Innocents and Paranormal Activity) and while it’s something I thought I’d post relatively rarely, I’ve already got a few ideas…