How to write a blog

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Advantages of writing blogs

Before we move to “how” you can start writing, let me tell you “why” you should start writing.

1 It builds your sentence construction. If you find a lag in your routine communication. You should start writing. It will build an amazing library of words. It will also boost you confidence to let you win your everyday encounters.

2 Blog writing organises your thoughts. You want to reach to conclusions of your every day experiences. You can not create meaningful conclusions unless you ponder over them. Blogs let you think about your assumptions. It gives a structure to your imagination. It validates your goals.

3 Blog is your “go to" place to market your product. If you want to sell a subscribe button, you will need to explain it to people. If you want to sell a cookie, you need to put its design out there with its recipe. If you want to sell your website, you need to write its story. If you want to lead people, you need to put yourself into words. It is a place for every one, because every one of us is selling something.

How to write a good blog

Colors by Steve Johnson

A blog has following major parts.

1. Content

2. Your Personality

3. Sincerity

1 Content

Break your article into sub headings.

Above is the breakdown of this blog. I wrote it prior to writing this blog.

It is also called as “Brain Storming”. This technique is used in “Documentation Construction” of softwares. Here you only pen down the parts that come to your mind. After you have listed all the parts of your talk, sort them and reach to a conclusion.

The breaking into sub-headings and listing them, also gives you a peace of mind. You realise you have all important content right in front of you. Your thoughts start aligning with these headings. You evaluate and finally gather courage to start writing.

Talk

Stage by Matheus Bertelli

You need to put yourself in the shoes of a better yourself. You are sitting on a stage. Your laptop is open next to you. Your audience is sitting right in front of you. You have an ample amount of thoughts that you want go heard and understood. You are prepared and ready to speak.

Elaborate each part of your “brain stormed” breakdown into sentences. They can be long. Some sentences can get boring. But try to write paragraphs in one motion. Focus on 1 message in each paragraph.

Give Value

Your readers are valuable audience. You do not want to waste their time. You do not want they listen to you and get bored. You also do not want they misunderstand your message.

For that, assume you are sitting on stage and there is only 1 person in front of you. You will find it hard to give value to a single person looking at you. If you succeed in giving value to 1 person on stage, you will succeed in delivering your message across to your individual reader.

Take responsibility of producing meaningful content.

3 Your Personality

Personality by bongkarn thanyakij

Pictures

The above picture is a reflection of my work space. I want a cup of tea, my phone, laptop and diary right in front of me, while I am developing / writing blogs.

Similarly, you have to find pictures that reflect your better self. You need to place these pictures in front of you to get a better hint at how you are going to write about them.

Add good, colorful and meaningful pictures to your blogs. Pictures gives your blog variation of colors. A reader, does not want to read your entire blog. He is in want of finding content specific to his interest. Pictures does just that, give interest.

Font Style

Roboto by Google

I use Roboto in my blogs. It is readerly. Gives book like look. With grey color and lighter black, the headings and paragraph do not over-run the content.

You need to chose subtle font style, small variation of colors. If you are going with black, it is a real bold step. I would suggest you stop, increase the transparency of black. Lower down the tone of your font. Do not use bold colors, unless you have a bold personality.

Personally, I like humble and calm people more than bold and clever people.

Construct Small Sentences

Do not write lengthy sentences. To the point. On Spot. Blunt and Focused. There is no need to follow Grammar and boring rules. Spread your message like you are in control of your content. Plain. Simple and Meaningful. Do not use difficult words, lengthy paragraphs and Mono colored essays.

Sentence construction is like poetry. It resonates with your previous words. If you break the motion of creating short, beautiful and interlinked words, you literally loose your reader.

Where should you publish?

Article on 9 best free blogging sites by Themeisle.

You do not need to create everything from scratch. You do not need to be a web developer. You do not need to be a tech geek. It is 2020, you can publish your blog post just in a click.

I have used Medium.com for nearly 1 year. It is a carefully designed and thoroughly delivered, platform, for beginners as well as experts. If you write consistently, it will let you earn through blogs.

If you want to opt for another platform, you should read this blog by Themeisle.

3 Sincerity

Sincere by Kyle Glenn

Write Consistently

You can not succeed, unless you work on reaching your goals everyday. It is that simple and straight. You can not work on your goals everyday, unless you love your destination. You can not love your destination, unless you have a good imagination power.

Draw your destination on a good white paper. Hang it on your biggest wall. And start writing about it everyday. Until you achieve, what you desire to achieve.

Soon you will see “the law of attraction” becoming true. Your surroundings will start turning into your kind of people, your furniture and house will be on a similar island, that you dream about. Soon you will reach your destination.

Work hard, write everyday, publish consistently and succeed.

Put your content in 2 boxes; Love and Respect

Divide by Alex

Once you start writing consistently, you will find people losing interest in your content. It is a natural instinct. But while the interest is decreasing, audience is leaving, leaves are breaking, you are becoming a poet, artist and a leader. Your thoughts will lead your affairs in your home, friends’ circle and at your job.

Meanwhile, you will need to make your content premium.

Love your recently published blog. Let it out in open. Talk about it. Spread its meaning. As it gets old, 2 or 3 blogs down in the shelf, respect it. Place it in a cabinet. Lock the drawer. Put a premium price on it. That way you will find people, loving your today’s content and respecting your older content.

Super impose your content with the purpose of your life

Purpose by Jamie Street

The easiest part of pouring in your personality is you “identify” your aim of life. You create a “product” out of it. And when it is time, to launch the product, start writing. Without purpose, you can not make your content sing. It needs to resonate with your actions. It has to show your downs, struggles, failures and sweat ridden body.

Yet, there is nothing that should stop you from writing. If you want to become a great writer, that writes the best books in the world, you should start writing today.

There is no short cut to success. You are talented, beautiful and an amazing human being. You used to undermine your potential. But believe me, you are not less than Stephen King or William Shakespeare. You have exactly same amount of blessings of Allah as these people had. The only difference between you and Charles Dickens is; he reached the pinnacle of writing great books. And you are just starting.

Conclusion

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Cosy up a little. Take shower. Breathe. Open your arms. Look up at the sky. Find nature moving and touching your skin. Your lips grinning, eye balls rolling, neck cracking. Love it. You are already in air. Swimming. Flying and Running.

Do not feel low. Thank this abundance. Love. Cheer. Run and Live. You are not small. You are not ignorant. You are not less. You are huge. Just get up and start running. Fail. Fall. Rise. Succeed. This is a small life. Make it COUNT.