Constant Content

I just wrote and article, and no matter what I did to it, it turned out to be a lot of lists and not much other text. It's just a basic article about a disorder, which has a lot of symptoms and a lot of causes, so there are lists of symptoms, causes, and remedies. If I had elaborated on all of them, the article would have been 25 pages long!

I mean for it to be a sort of "AHA!" article that will make people want to seek out more information from their health care provider, and said so at the end of the article. I just keep looking at it and thinking "Ed will never approve this, it has no paragraphs". Actually, it does, but very small ones.

Do you think maybe I should break it up into symptoms, treatments, and remedies and elaborate on each one, and submit as two or three articles instead? I started out wanting to have a comprehensive article, but realized how long it would be when I found a site that had 6 separate links to info about it!

I'd say you've answered your own question here. Whenever I've had misgivings about an article, but been too stubborn or lazy to make the changes that occur to me, it's never been a success. I usually end up feeling I could kick myself.

Here, of course, you have the chance to try it out and then change it if it gets rejected. But that's hardly fair on Ed, and remember about the three rejections.

Perhaps the best way to decide is to think of how much you'd get out of it as a reader. Then again, there's much more lucre to be made out of six articles, than just one.

Rock on.