top of page
ss_872822c5e50dc71f345416098d29fc3ae5cd26c1_edited.jpg
Search

What is long form story

  • Writer: LO  WEI XING
    LO WEI XING
  • Jul 18, 2023
  • 3 min read



A longform story is a longer narrative about a topic, it contains a very detailed description and backstories of the topics. In addition, most of the longform story has multitude characters or points. Compared to a short story, a longform story is more detailed and complex. For example, there will be few main points that contain more than one meaning or idea. The word count of a longform story may be up to 50,000 words.


What is the story about

The title of this longform story is everything you need to know about writing about health and fitness. This article does not aim for readers that are interested in dieting and finding ways to gain muscles. These articles aim readers who are also interested in becoming a blogger for health and fitness topics. In this digital era, everyone living in this world has the access to use the internet to post blogs. So, it will be difficult to make particular readers focus or finish a blog. As there are too many choices that the readers can choose to read. This longform story blog is used to teach anyone that wants to stand out from other bloggers from basics to a professional blogger.It contains steps for becoming a successful blogger and understanding official rules when publishing a blog.


Effort the story has

This longform story put a lot of effort in providing hyperlinks to show the rules and regulations of posting a blog. As the blog is stating official rules and providing hyperlinks, it made the readers have a better understanding and also proven that all the points that were stated in the blog are correct and true. The trustworthiness of the blogger will be built as the points are the same as the government official website.

The next effort is stating the sources that the articles are based on, this will make the readers who love reading articles to continue their online reading journey.These links that lead to other articles would also make the blog more credible and provide more information to the readers. Other than that, the longform story also made a lot of effort in choosing the topics that stand out from other articles. As in the same topic of becoming a blogger on health and fitness, by stating the points that are deeper than just an overview of an idea. For example, Rules and regulations.

The last effort is providing the right and wrong examples for the readers to interpret, this will be more practical compared to just sharing a point.

Improvement

There are 3 improvements that the longform story needed to improve. First is putting pictures into the article. For example, when the article is stating about posting fitness pictures, pictures are more likely to show the readers what is the meaning and understand the article better.

The second improvement is providing videos. This is because videos are more interactive to the readers compared to reading words. It would be boring if there are too many words, so adding videos will make the article more interesting. For example, there are many points about rules and regulations.If the rules and regulations show in videos and provide links to official websites, readers are more likely to be attracted and more likely to believe the words that were said in the video.

The third improvement is providing infographics to categorize all the points. Having an infographic would make the readers to more understand the timeliness and what is more important in the articles. For example, there are too many small points in this article that will make the readers feel complicated. Having an infographic would make the audience more understand the flow of the article and infographic as a picture and vectors that make the article more easy to understand.

Overall comments

A longform story has to be very careful when narrating the story as the readers would need more time to read the article. So, having a cinematic storytelling structure would make the readers flow with the story with emotion and feeling. Having pictures,videos and infographics will improve the audience’s understanding of the story and provide more evidence to show that the story is real.

Storyboard


Providing pictures, videos and infographics would make the article more interesting and easy to understand. In the other hand, longform story has a complex points and ideas, so having an infographic would make the article be categories and know what is more important


 
 
 

Recent Posts

See All
Five different leads and example

First of all, leads are very important in a blog as it is the key that will ensure the readers are going to finish the article or leave...

 
 
 

Comments


Baybeyondthemoon

©2023 by Baybeyondthemoon. Proudly created with Wix.com

bottom of page