Writing for Web Audience

Writing a novel is a whole lot different from writing online though both avenues require the same mechanical act. The audience your targeting would greatly affect the way you write though I know a lot of people who write without caring who their audience is. Purists would also look at this the wrong way, thinking that writing is an art form and should not be constrained by the people you are aiming for.

Length
Most writers right now find solace in the internet especially if they don't have the means to publish their own work. Published articles are still reserved for the lucky ones. For online audiences the standard length of articles should be no longer than 400 words for blog posts. For articles you can go for as long as 500 to 600 but you should be reminded of the attention span of people. If you're not that confident in producing output that is engaging, then try to keep your sentences as short as possible.

I once wrote a three-part blog post that would've amounted to 2 thousand words if I squeezed it in one single blog post. If you want your readers to go through the whole ordeal of your full story break your story in parts. Each part should be able to stand alone and is engaging enough to be visited again.

And because I want to prove my point, I'll be cutting my post short from here and continue the next tips in the following blog posts.