A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
There used to be a young Belgian lad named Alex, who started on his email journey with nothing but passion, determination, and most importantly, a dream.
Back then, as some of the elders around here might still remember, the young boy would only send out a single WEEKLY (!) email.
But not just any email.
It was a special type of email—a long-form, article-styled email, which dived deeper into the topic. One that, while still entertaining, was very much heavily focused on teaching and explaining a helluva lot more than what’s possible with a short daily-type email.
Recently I’ve developed a new type of respect and admiration for people who write those types of long-form blog posts or articles.
One of which is Bret Devereaux, a historian who runs a blog titled “A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” and easily writes weekly 8,000+ word blog posts (essays, really) which, combined with checking out multiple Wikipedia links and looking up specific historical events, take me about 40 to 50 minutes to read.
Now, while I’m definitely not planning on writing such massive essays, I did start thinking about writing some long-form articles again.
For one, I expect (hope) many people (that’s including you, my sweet little reader) will find those incredibly valuable and entertaining.
But it’ll also help build up my website with useful articles, while simultaneously allowing me to create specific “reports” (a bundle of articles on a particular topic) or even entire books by stitching together similarly themed articles.
How I plan to distribute those articles is still unclear.
Will I send them out as additional emails every Saturday? Is it going to replace one of my daily emails? Will I publish them on my website, without sending them out via email (besides a quick “hey, look at this new article” email)?
Who knows.
Hell, I’m still debating whether to start writing these types of articles again.
If you haven’t noticed yet.
This email—and most of the ones I write—are as educational for me as for you, if not more. After all, writing is nothing more than “thinking on paper”.
Anyway.
I’d like to hear your opinion on this matter as well.
Do you like reading article-style emails? Do you still remember some of the earlier ones I wrote way back in the beginning? Would you like me to start writing them again?
You know how it works by now. Simply hit reply and let me know.
Cheers!