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Writing blurbs on Bulbanews

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Zhen Lin

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I have never seen such short sentences passed off as blurbs. Some are shorter than the combined title + tagline. There is a reason why the front page box is so tall, and that is to write at least a paragraph of 50 words to introduce the story.

A well written first paragraph will function perfectly well as a blurb as well. Do not be afraid to use the first few sentences as the blurb.

There are other reasons for writing good-length blurbs: One of them is that the RSS and Atom feeds are made using the blurbs. (As opposed to blindly extracting the first paragraph(s) of the article, or even the first n words of the article, as certain sites like to do.) Personally, I wouldn't be impressed with such short blurbs from a site that bills itself as a "comprehensive Pokémon news service". (See screenshot.)

I'm sorry if I come off as being harsh, but this has been bugging me for a long time.
 
Thank you for the clarification. It was previously not made clear what was supposed to go into the blurb line.
 
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