October 9, 2026What I Am Trying to Build With M.V. Mitic and Valentine Kingdom
When I started writing The Eternal Prince, I was primarily thinking about the story. I was not sitting there with a giant…
There is a strange amount of advice online about the exact number of words a blog post should contain. Some people say every article needs to be two or three thousand words to rank properly, while others say nobody reads anymore and everything should be extremely short. I do not really agree with either extreme. For me, the subject should decide the length. If something can be explained properly in seven hundred words, stretching it to two thousand does not automatically make it more useful. At the same time, a complicated subject should not be chopped down so aggressively that all of the useful detail disappears. I want articles to feel complete and substantial, but I do not want them padded simply because a word-count target exists.
Short Does Not Mean Empty
Some questions genuinely have fairly direct answers. If I am discussing whether an author needs a domain name or why free chapters can be useful, there may be no reason to turn that into a giant guide containing fifteen headings. I have opened plenty of articles where the information I wanted could have been explained in a few paragraphs but was buried beneath definitions, repeated introductions and sections that existed mainly to make the article longer. I do not want my own site to feel that way. A shorter article can still be detailed if the paragraphs contain actual information instead of being split into tiny pieces to make the page look longer.
Long Articles Still Have Their Place
Other subjects deserve more space. Building an author website, choosing hosting, setting up ecommerce or understanding a publishing business can involve several separate decisions. Compressing those topics too much would make the article shallow, so in those cases a longer guide makes sense. The important distinction for me is whether every section is doing useful work. If I can remove five hundred words and nothing important changes, those words were probably not necessary. If removing a section creates an obvious unanswered question, it should stay. That feels like a much better rule than deciding beforehand that every post must hit exactly the same length.
I Want People to Reach the Bottom
Ultimately, I care more about whether somebody actually finishes the article than whether it looks impressive in a word counter. People may be reading on a phone, coming from Google for one specific answer or opening the page from Pinterest while doing something else. I want enough detail that the article feels worth reading without turning it into work. That is why I prefer a dense middle ground: a clear introduction, a few substantial sections and normal paragraphs that develop the idea properly. Not one sentence under every heading, not endless white space and not a giant wall of text either. The best length is probably the point where everything useful has been said and I no longer have a good reason to keep writing.
