Short Poem, Long Intro

How to Increase Your Read Time By Padding Your Posts

Roz Warren
Nov 1 · 3 min read
Photo by Justin Veenema on Unsplash

Now that Medium writers are being paid for the amount of time readers spend with our work rather than on how good it is, poets and other writers of pithy posts are, to employ a bit of highly technical jargon, screwed.

You can write the world’s most brilliant Haiku, but if it takes a reader just a few seconds to…

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Roz Warren, FBTA, (https://muckrack.com/roz-warren) writes for everyone from the New York Times to the Funny Times.

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