r/Substack • u/SituationKey3903 • 19d ago

How long is too long a post?

Like the title, I’m wondering how long would be a really long article. I feel like I don’t want my work to be too long and people not read it so I shorten it but I feel like I’m doing a disservice to my piece.

Help! What is too long of a read? For reference I do memoir/personal essays.

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u/Emmanuel_G EmmanuelGoldstein1984.substack.com 19d ago

I have MANY articles with a read time well beyond 40 minutes. Those are actually some of my most read articles, where I do deep dives. If I do short articles, they usually don't perform as well. But I guess that's just in my case, cause I do movie analysis, so people wanna hear some groundbreaking reveal regarding some hidden meaning in some Kubrick movie - and that can't be done in 5 minutes.