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❎ Bad reasons to Post
- Someone told you that you have to write about this
- “For visibility”
- What does that mean ?
- Is it visible if nobody reads it 🤔
- Need somewhere to remember all your passwords
- To encourage people to buy your product
- The post is now an ad
- Who would read it on purpose?
- To document how something you made works
- Might be better in wiki forma
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
:)) the author is hillarious and I like them
✅ Good reasons to Post
- You are the only person in the world with this information, and other people might want to know it (publishing something new)
- Fanfic (any)
- To share how to do something, so other people can learn it 👀
- To tell a story
- Just for fun, to be entertaining
- To announce something your audience will be interested in
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
why I must write about something?
You can cut out so much by simply realising “actually, the reader doesn’t care about that.” Simply delete it, and the post loses nothing, so the overall quality goes up. That’s just economics.
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
cut out the part that the readers don’t need.
Write it like you’re trying to trick the reader into understanding what you mean in as few words as possible
Because you are.
Because you are.
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
In the first few sentences, you want the reader to know:
- Who is this for?
- What’s going to happen?
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
how to write a summary for the blog post?
Put a summary at the top maybe?
You wanna let the reader quickly decide whether to read your post or not. Maybe they get what they wanted just from the summary, and can just stop reading there, instantly winning you a Nobel Peace Prize but for like, blogging.
You wanna let the reader quickly decide whether to read your post or not. Maybe they get what they wanted just from the summary, and can just stop reading there, instantly winning you a Nobel Peace Prize but for like, blogging.
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
Use more examples. I’m talkin’ wayyyyyyy more
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
okay, use examples where you can
Basically take any excuse to use a picture/diagram instead of words
Listen, sometimes it is too hard to explain where New Zealand is over text. “What? But it’s a small country with a vibrant honey economy, located just off the east coast of Austr-“. Stop this madness. What is an “east coast”. How far “off” is it? Does that mean an ocean is involved... See more
Listen, sometimes it is too hard to explain where New Zealand is over text. “What? But it’s a small country with a vibrant honey economy, located just off the east coast of Austr-“. Stop this madness. What is an “east coast”. How far “off” is it? Does that mean an ocean is involved... See more
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
use pictures/illustrations whenever you can
Constantly ask yourself: Does the person reading this know what the heck I’m talking about?
This is the most common thing I say, possibly ever, but definitely when reviewing people’s blog posts.
This is the most common thing I say, possibly ever, but definitely when reviewing people’s blog posts.