A lot of people have trouble with writing for their blog; I don’t blame them because it often feels like you’re doing a ton of work for very little (or no) pay. However, it’s vitally important to keep a constant stream of new content to your blog if you wish to gain enough traction to build up a great brand, earn money with your blog and create an amazing community.
Believe it or not, the process of creating a blog post, every day, is rather simple when you break it all down. This is what I want to share in this article …
Writing One Blog Post, Every Day
Naturally, writing a blog post every day seems like it would come across as forceful; after all, you’re a busy person but you’re also trying to make something of your blog. Over the years, I’ve found quite a few techniques that have worked on my own behalf that I believe will work wonders for you too.
Here is a general process I take when needing to create a new piece of content each day:
Step 1: Keep an Idea Journal
This one is a biggie because it will give you the foresight on what blog posts you need to be working on throughout the days. Your idea journal should be created so you can easily scan and find topics you wish to talk about, that day, on your blog. You can start pulling in ideas by reading other blogs, watching television, listening to the radio, daydreaming, looking at blog post idea lists or just relating the topic to a current event. Collect all of these ideas into a journal or spreadsheet so you can come back to it later.
Step 2: Create a General Blog Post Outline
Out of all the tricks I try to teach others, this is the biggie. Blog posts don’t need to reinvent the wheel; structure goes a long way when writing for the web. What I mean is that you can see, in this post, that I have divided the sections into different headlines to convey ideas. When you’re writing, take the topic you wish to cover and break it down to about 3 – 5 different subheadings; keep all of the information relevant but break it down into bite-sized chunks which will let you easily complete each section with ease.
Step 3: Write with a Clear Mind
A lot of writers approach their blog post writing as if it were a report paper for college; however, you don’t need to think too deeply about it as you may be already doing. Instead, try writing with a clear mind – let the information flow from you without editing, do everything you can to get your idea across without stopping yourself every minute to check whether a sentence works. The important thing is to get everything out in one go and then come back to it later to edit; this is where structure comes into play because you’ll be able to jump to each section and knock down one section at a time.
Step 4: Go Back and Edit
Once you’re done getting all that information onto your screen – go back and edit the blog post to make sure that it’s conveying the main ideas. Remove anything that doesn’t make sense or just continues to ramble on; people’s attention spans are short so keep things to a bare minimum and use external sources (links to other blog posts) if you need to explain a topic in greater detail.
Step 5: Touch Up for Publication
The blog post is technically done at this time but you know that there is more to it than just adding it to your blog and hitting publish. Take this time to go back through, again, and find other media that will fit into the post such as an additional video, pictures or audio you’ve found to add further value to the post. Add these additional elements and you’ll be creating a great post in no-time.
Conclusion
I know it may sound crazy but something as simple as this guide has taken less than ten minutes to write; the reason for this is that I’ve taken the exact same steps when putting together the original draft.
You too can create a blog post each day if you sit down and practice. In time, you’ll find your writing style and that is when things start to roll out with ease.
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Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com says
I always publish at least one post a day despite of my full time work and other busy-ness in life.. it’s a bit tough to keep it consistent and review posts are the hardest – as I have to write longer, take photos + edit them, re-read/re-proof, etc etc
In the end, the hard work pays off as this is one of the ways to make sure you grow your blog :) Though of course, the quality matters too heh heh
Murray Lunn says
It certainly does Michael and it’s great to see that you’re able to keep up that momentum.
Writing isn’t all that difficult but it can get to you over time; if you’re feeling too stressed – you could always get a week’s worth of writing done and then take a nice, short break :)
Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com says
I wanted too but it’s even harder to write that many at one go! I try to slip in some guest posts in between so I can take my break once a while ;)
Sally Brown says
I really loved this post. I sometimes seem to take way too long to write a post. I am going to give this a try. I already keep a log of my ideas, so I’ll go from there. Thanks for the post. Sally
Murray Lunn says
I think that would be a good idea Sally, writing down all of your ideas starts to take on a life of its own – you’ll find that you’ll be creating even more articles because you can easily see other post ideas you may not have noticed on the first pass.
jan says
Some great points here – as I am ultra slow at writing, step 4 was the single most important thing that I ever learned as I used to edit as I went along and would re-write something dozens of times. Writing all in one go and then editing made quite a difference although I am still slow!!!
Murray Lunn says
You’ll be amazed at how much you can get done when you make sure you get all of the information out first and edit later – a lot of times, you’ll find that you can even get so great at writing that you won’t even need to go back and edit!
Alvin Lim says
It depends on the topic itself. Topics like technology, and gadgets require thoughtful and good analysis skill. It is even more tough to write on tutorial or guide post which require intense knowledge and try it out yourself first before publish the article. But after all, one post a day is possible :)
Murray Lunn says
Definitely; technical posts require time to understand what you’re covering so you may not necessarily get the entire information in a day but you could certainly get the article part done in that time limit – the key is to constantly learn something new so you have something new to write :D
Justin Germino says
I brought in a team of writers, I was managing 3 blogs and writing 60 posts + 30 poems per month which means 3 content articles per day myself for 2 years and I just was burning out. Now that I have a team of writers I cut back to writing about 45 articles (15 for dragonblogger, 30 for my personal blog) and 20+ poems per month for my poetry blog. This is just the writing I produce as a part time blogger (20 hours or so writing time per week).
This is one of the reasons why I can’t get around commenting and certainly have so little time to guest post on other sites.
Tuan Do says
You’ve done an amazing job, Justin.
I hardly can write even 1 article per day and that’s why I had to sell my old blog, it’s very difficult to manage multiple blogs at the same time.
Thanks to your suggestions, I found out some great bloggers like Murray and Emmanuel to help me maintain this blog. :)
Justin Germino says
Collaboration is really key for some blogs, especially since there is no way I could write enough articles to keep current with all the technology trends and news by myself.
samrat kafle says
Hey thats a great post love the way you described really helpful posting article everyday is very sensitive job thanks for making it clear :)
cheers
Easther says
Hi Tuan Do,
I am trying and learning on how to keep my momentum in getting my post out. its is a bit hard when you have a full time job.
Tuan Do says
It is not that difficult, Easther. Most of us are part-time bloggers and we need to find some time after work for new posts. You will get used to it and find it is not stressful at all.
Best. :)
Paul Salmon says
I have been blogging for over 4 years, but it wasn’t until this year that I started to publish posts 5 times a week. It was tough at the beginning to have enough content to publish many times during the week, but over time I began to get used to publishing the content. Guest posts have helped a lot too.
Suresh Khanal says
I don’t dare it everyday, but yes these are the nice tips of building up nice blog posts. For somebody like me doing part time blogging and running multiple blogs, it is not always possible to be that productive for each blog. I do agree with the steps.