1. Stop Thinking and Start writing
Many people stuck in starting a blog post is mostly due to thinking to start a blog post. We tends to plan the journey of writing the blog post but in fact a journey is created by walking through not planning. Yes, you might said hey, a project has to be well planned before executing it right?
Indeed, but how to define a well plan project? Is it guarantee that there will be no risk or troubles happened in between a well-planned project? No, so why we bothered? Writing blog is no a big project and is easier than you think . Take your initiative , open up your note book and start writing anything that is in your mind. That’s your first blog post. If I am telling you this is my first blog post, will you believe it? Actually I don’t care and you might not care as well. The worse is that you skip the entire blog or even shut down your computer. No big deal. Every experts start with a poor writing skills. First baby step is the important key.
2. Commit to one type of blog
Find a good topic and commit to it. The most simplest way to start a blog topic is writing what you know or learn. Never start to research for topic to write for your very first blog post as this will stop you from writing it. Spending days in researching your topics only will lead to procrastinating and in the end, no progress is actually done. Research along the way, learn a long the way.
3. Be Confidence
Confidence does not mean you have to be the Expert. An expert is created not by years of experience but the confidence in sharing his knowledge. Be confidence in sharing your knowledge or even your learning journey.
There are no experts saying “ Well, I am the professional, lets stop learning today and flex among others.”. The day you stop learning from others is the time where you lose the title as experts. Documents your learning journey and after years of doing it, you will be able to compare the results, mistakes and journey along this blogging experience. You will be able to influence others with your own way.
4. Structure your blog post
It will be painful to let your reader to read in non structural way. Structure you blog with beginning, middle, and end which will ease your reader in consuming your idea.
Introduction
Start with a little bit of context to help others understand where your post fits into the big picture. Give a summary on what reader will get from your blog content.
Middle
Feed what ever information that you have promised to your reader. Use headings, numbered lists and structure formatting to help people understand where they are and enable them to skip around to the content they are most interested in.
Conclusion
If your reader made till this section, congratulations your reader really care about the content of this blog post. Give a round up of what you written in this blog , let them refresh on what they have learned though out this blog post in a quick way.
5. Get feedback and collect leads
You wont know what people are going to get from your writing until they read it. Ask for feedback so that you can know the pros and cons of your blog post. How they feel, what should be improve. Turn your cons to pros and keep your pros in a consistent way. Quality is important but consistency is the king of everything. Consistence in generating good content that the reader needs, the tittle of experts blogger is not far away from you.
Collect reader emails or ask for a click of share or like from your reader will be nice. I will talk more on collecting leads in the next articles.
Lets give it a wrap on what I have discussed today. Stop thinking on what you should write for your first blog post, write something that you have learn or know currently and commit to it. Be confidence on your writing and never afraid of criticism. Structure your blog post nicely. Get feedback and collect leads from you readers.
This marked as my first post for my technical blog post journey. I am Garrick Ng a self learn software engineer base in Malaysia who start of with PHP programming language. Looking forward to learn more stacks able to join Google in future or working with Elon Musk, I am a big fan of him.
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