Tips for those looking to write good blogging writing

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Working with texts and forming your own style is an important task for a blogger. It is said that style and the ability to adhere to a certain uniform manner come "with time"; But personally, I do not believe that without clear rules and improving practical skills, you can simply “fill your hand” at the expense of time. Besides, time is too valuable a resource to be spent on “working hours”. Therefore, based on my own experience and mistakes, I can give 5 small tips for those looking to improve their blogging skills.

• Morning pages technique and freewriting as such: For the first time I read about this technique of working with my own thoughts, ideas and sketches of text in a post by Vladimir Degtyarev, and since then I have repeatedly resorted to this method of accumulating ideas and formulating sketches for my own posts (I write for several large Ukrainian and Russian projects, and sometimes you need to write several voluminous copyright texts a day). In addition, keeping a paper diary can be used as a subspecies of "morning pages".
• Reading books of different topics and styles: It is possible to enrich vocabulary, expand the vocabulary of synonyms and speech patterns only by reading fiction (you can argue with me, but only with good reason: for 7 years of blogging, I have not found a single confirmation that “I do not read fiction” = “I can express my thoughts correctly”). You can increase your knowledge in the area you are writing about for a blog only by reading professional literature on this topic, reading business books. And one more thing: try to read in several languages, not only in Russian: you can “feel” the specifics of turns and comparative terminology only if you have access to different language versions of the same book, for example.
• In my blogging work, I try to use scheme "Wrote - Read - Postponed - Returned to the same text in 5-8-12 hours." Of course, in the case when "the post is on," such a scheme cannot be realized; but most articles have time to proofread and comb the final text.
• Reading other people's blogs, columns and articles: Sometimes newbie bloggers are advised not to pay attention to how someone "famous" writes: they say, this is how the eye and the "sense of the word" are "blurred", imitation and copying begins, but you need to develop your own style. Partially there is a rational "grain" in this, however, without interesting samples and sensible, "tasty" text, you risk becoming one of the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of "owners of zhezheshechka". If your goal is to create an interesting content project or work in the editorial office of a readable and authoritative blog, then it makes sense to read more often competitors, ideologically close and even ideologically “enemy” bloggers: learn from the successes and mistakes that you notice from them.
• Necessarily buy / download / take to read from colleagues or friends desktop manuals, style books or working rules for media offices, online publications or just for journalists … Among the most useful ones I can recommend: a set of rules for the design of articles and news for Kommersant journalists; rules for the work of the issuing editor in the media; Western guides from publishers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the rules for official blogs and communities at Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft; …

And write, show your texts to those who are critical, do not be afraid of the audience. Work on yourself and your style of text presentation does not stop until you decide to "quit" blogging (and this happens very rarely:)).

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