How to Write a Good Blog Post: 7 Practical Steps for Modern Bloggers
Generate smart topic ideas
Prepare for quality writing time
Outline your content
Draft a good blog post to start
Go deeper
Edit your good first draft into a great blog post
Set yourself up for future success
How to Write a Good Blog Post: 7 Practical Steps for Modern Bloggers
Studying about blogging and making consistent improvement to your content ideas will bring more consistent output.
Hardest part of writing a blog
what we are going to work
what the structure will be
We dont know the first sentence
So many ideas running mind
dont know how to combine your thoughts
7 steps to write the best blog post for your topic
Generate smart topic ideas
If you dont know what you are going to write then it is waste of time for you.
Ideas that flows in your mind have both good one and silly ones
Your post idea can drive from, A content series, a kind of customer you want to speak to, an analogy, a real-world example, a statement of your values, a funny story
Writing down your content ideas everyday atleast 5 will bring more ideas while you writing your blog post
Prepare for quality writing time
while writing make yourself comfortable and get away from distractions or interruption, it may ruin your content.
If your mind swings then your writing brain will go crazy and it will be miserable.
Quality writing is called as deep work, there are certain conditions that support doing your best work, find out the conditions and make your writing time worthy.
Outline your content
start with your subheading, it will bring plot to your blog post and it will shows you whether your blog post is relevant and useful or not
Mind maps are more helpful when you are about to create outline for your blog
Once you done with framework then it will good to go for you to start wherever you want, why because it is not necessary that you have to start from the beginning. Just jump to the subheading where you can just write a draft of 2 or 3 paragraphs.
Draft a good blog post to start
You have brought a draft to your blog post, when you think that your first copy is so good, read it again. You will get an idea of what and where it goes wrong. Some words didn't fit in your writing. While you write the second draft you will make it so simple to bring unique content in your blog post.
Go deeper
Just talk about the topic that you are writing, it will bring more ideas on the way you write.
If discussing with others is tough, talk to yourself and made a conversation in your head so that you can bring up a unique writing style that will help you to produce a good blog post
Edit your good first draft into a great blog post
What is the main idea of this post?
Does you introduction have a strong impact?
Which part of this blog post has more energy?
If you feel little bored of what you have written, then use this to remind you where you stepped on of this in your blog: Words that can be cut without losing meaning, Ideas that can be cut and developed into additional work, Words that haven’t been used correctly, or that could be replaced by something more precise, Complicated sentence structures that can be streamlined, Fancy language that can be made plain.
Set yourself up for future success
When you are done with yoru blog move on to your next idea
Writing and gardening happen in cycles. There’s always something new coming up.
a piece that you weren’t incredibly excited about turns out to be a fan favorite. We aren’t necessarily terrific judges of how well a particular piece of writing will work out for us.
Capture some more ideas. Start growing the next one. Write until it’s done. Prune until it’s pretty good.