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Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#51
Practice. Practice. Practice.

What helps me to actually sit down and write something for my blog[0] is writing about something related to work. I make a structure first, paste links, comments, whatever. Then do a second or third pass to fill in the sections and make it presentable.

For grammar, I use Grammarly to stay in check.

[0] https://nts.strzibny.name/

Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#52
post #32

One of the difficult parts of learning by blogging is that you rarely receive thoughtful feedback from your readers on the craft of your writing. You can look at analytics and comments to see which of your posts are popular, but nobody ever says, "Oh, this post would have worked better had your sentence structure been less repetitive." I solved this problem by hiring a freelance editor from Upwork.[0] It was a few hu…

I feel a lot better about giving edit feedback ~for free~ unsolicited from time to time now.

Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#55
Here's my approach, use grammmly if your grammar isn't perfect like mine is okay but I still use it on the safe side.

Lastly you can write about interesting things such as the when you solved a hard problem you face and this can have a great impact as someone might be having the same problem but you writing about it can actually help others who had the same problem.

Furthermore you can also write about interesting tools you come across the internet or how to use them in your blogpost.

Having a blog can put an positive impact and its the way of giving back to the community (I mean that's how I think and its just my personal opinion)

Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#57
I would definitely be interested in such a guide. I have to say that i my experience with blogging left me very confused.

One of my best blog posts, on which I dedicated >4 months in research,writing and editing has been read by less than 300 people. In cotrast, a post I wrote off-handedly during a flight back from a conference and didn't even bother to edit was read by more than 10k people in a short time and was tweeted and generated a nice amount of traction.

Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#58

can any one suggest me which is the best tool for rewriting an article i have tried many tools but nothing performs

No such tool. You're asking about the discipline of editing. People spend their whole careers honing their skills at editing. It's not easy. There's no program or software that can help. It's a people question.

Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#59
What you're really asking is "How can I write better essays?"

Look up answers to that question and you'll get further. You'll even find free online courses to help you.

Look up creative writing. Look up Journalism. Writing is a deep topic. Sure some people can make it look easy. But it's not. It's dang blam difficult.

Also, it sounds like you're having trouble quickly learning a topic. That's another problem entirely.

Re: Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

#60
If you're on Twitter, I'd suggest you follow David Perell (https://twitter.com/david_perell) and explore his works.

Also, do you already have a tool for writing? A good tool allows you to structure your content better and allows your thoughts to flow much easily. I'm using a tool called Ulysses (http://ulysses.app). Unfortunately, it's only available for Apple.

Hope it helps.

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