A Simple Template for Writing Great Short-Form Articles of 150 Words or Less
and a quick how-to primer for writing short form content
Let’s keep this short. You can write compelling content in 150 words but it’s a deceptively simple undertaking. It takes a laser-like focus on your topic and words that are pared down to the essentials.
Once you’re comfortable with the process you can churn out short-form articles to act as fillers between long-form articles or to boost the quantity of your offerings. Or, like me, you can choose to specialize in short-form writing, breaking it up once in a while with longer pieces. The point is that this can be a valuable tool in your writing kit, however you use it.
General Rules
Like long-form writing, avoid large text blocks. 150 words may not seem like much, but it’s too much for one paragraph.
Don’t use extra, unnecessary words. In the sentence above I could have written “blocks of text” instead of “text blocks” but the meaning was just as clear with one less word. A few short, choppy sentences are perfectly fine as long as you intersperse them among longer sentences that flow nicely.
Pick a very narrow, very specific topic to write about. You’re trying to deliver just one idea…
