Wednesday 23 November 2016

Secrets from writing, editing and publishing 1,000+ blog posts


I write a lot of blog posts. In the last eight or nine years I’ve written over one thousand posts on WPShout, the old incarnation of this site, a video game review site I used to run with friends and assorted places like the Miniclip Blog. These days I write here every week, I’m constantly writing for MasterWP and writing is an integral part of my freelance work.
In this time I’ve tried out more or less every writing trick and “hack” in the book. I’m always looking for ways to improve, but at this stage I’m pretty happy I’ve gotten the writing process well optimised.
If you’re writing anything — regularly, occasionally, or less than you want — then there’s likely something here that can help. This is what my writing process looks like, a thousand posts later.
Coming up with good ideas is the most important step
A lot of writing advice is “write more” or “just start writing 1,000 words per day”. This is only partially helpful. It’s misleading to suggest you can just sit down and write 1,000 words before breakfast; you first need to know what to write about.
In my experience, coming up
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13892/secrets-from-writing-editing-and-publishing-1-000-blog-posts




source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/secrets-from-writing-editing-and-publishing-1000-blog-posts/

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