From the course: Writing with Impact
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Directing the eye with page elements
From the course: Writing with Impact
Directing the eye with page elements
- When you tell people you're a writer, they imagine you working on one long string of text until you've finished your novel or screenplay or article, but in my experience, most writing is just a series of little sprints rather than a marathon. For example, let's count the elements on this hotel website. There's a headline and a 70-word description, and then scrolling down a bit, there are six bits of about 20 words each and about 30 bullet points. Then there are two more headlines with two more descriptions, and so on and so on. Altogether, I count over 20 bits of writing aside from the bullet points and headlines, and all of these are under 100 words each. In total, it's about 1,200 words, and that's twice as many as in this page of a technical article, and yet it's much easier to read. One reason is that the hotel's webpage is broken into small bites, but there are also text elements that make it easier, some of…
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