Doing More Detailed Series (Long-Form Works)
This year started very well for us, as we're managing to publish at the pace that we aimed for and we do many series in parallel. Don't call them books or booklets; literary works in book form need to have sequential continuity that blog posts lack, even multi-part series in a blog.
In the past 3 days we served 1.5-2 million requests per day and it seems to carry on because people who "land" on some topic typically choose to "go back" (or come back later) and read prior parts for more context, more information etc.
This past weekend, as we had announced last month, we commenced 3 series in parallel and we're already drafting/outlining future parts. Based on our experience, this seems to be an effective - albeit time-consuming, no impulsive writing - way to convey and relay complex (well, complicated in the magnitude sense) information. Standalone blog posts simply lack navigation, except chronological (where previous and/or next posts are likely to be completely unrelated).
Like social control media quips, the problem with blog posts is that they're contiguous blocks of many unrelated (to one another) topics.
We want to encourage ourselves - if not others as well - to consider the practice of multi-part series, even if they're published gradually in a blog. Long readings or book-like reading binges are only possible when parts are suitably labeled (name and numbers) if not interlinked. Consistency and uniformity illuminate patterns.
Suffice to say, someone 'reading' a tweet and someone reading an entire book isn't the same; the two things are not comparable and "likes" are meaningless nonsense which people can buy from botfarm operators (lazy narcissists need those for affirmation). █
Image source: Seated man reading a book