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Discussion on: Name 3 writing tips you wish you had when you first started blogging

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

1) Document things that provide value to your readers instead of being a one trick pony.

2) Publish your full article on your websites first before posting it on other platforms.

3) Have a backlog of article topics that makes researching and creating a outline much easier.

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Michael Tharrington

These are excellent tips! Really appreciate you sharing them.

I love the one about creating a backlog of article topics to pull from (I've done this with songwriting!)... a little curious about your methods here. Do ya write down a title idea and brief synopsis? Use a trello board to organize them? Or are ya more informal about it all?

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

Most of the time I just brainstorm ideas to have 50 topics surrounding my niche. So when I'm left with 30+ topics, I just refill it.

I usually have a outline creation phase which I just focus on 3 points I want to deliver for the article. Then I just do more research for each point in my research phase for the articles I'm publishing for the week.

I find that tutorial articles is the hardest to write so I usually focus on other topics that doesn't require a additional phase of me doing a code review before I publish it.

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Peter Mortensen • Edited

How do you organise the information? In a (simple text) document? A database? An Excel sheet? Some web application or mobile app? An outliner by Dave Winer? In some specialised tool for this purpose? Something else?

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Max Ong Zong Bao

I usually put the outline into a document in Grammarly for each topic.