I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me

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

✅ 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

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.

yes yes yes:

I discovered bees can talk but unfortunately they are racist

i’m begging you not to do this:

It’s not just Barry from Bee Movie who might have a secret

In the first few sentences, you want the reader to know:

• Who is this for?


• What’s going to happen?

Classic mistake: Writing about what you find interesting

You already know that QPU movement takes a lot of speed, and it’s incredible that there’s a slope that’s just right for Mario to walk up it for 12 hours building up speed.

But unless your audience is in exactly the right niche, they don’t know what the heck you’re talking about, so they just s... See more

❎ 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

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Constantly ask yourself: Does the person reading this know what the heck I’m talking about?

Use more examples. I’m talkin’ wayyyyyyy more