6. Above all, Razzle Dazzle ’em. Remember, you are not an artist. You are a writer on the internet. You are not making a work of art, you’re making a listicle. You job is to put on a show. Keep them clicking, keep them entertained, make them giggle. Maybe throw in a gif or a funny video. All you have to do is make them click “next.” After all, a nation rises and falls on its listicles.
WRONG: The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly – by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
RIGHT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDnQWeZV_Q
(all images courtesy of Pixabay.)
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