
Most Successful Articles on Medium are Getting Killed on Grammarly
Just for fun, I was taking some articles I found on Medium and threw them in Grammarly. And WOW — if most were lucky, they’d score in the 70–80 range.
Guess who cares… NO ONE.
Something I’ve learned recently and had it reconfirmed after reading this article by Shaunta Grimes: https://writingcooperative.com/blogging-your-way-back-to-writing-84cbcb5d091b, is having an impact on me overcoming fear to hit publish.
Blogging is offering bite-sized nuggets of gold (we hope), to share information with the world, and more specifically, YOUR experiences. Set that framework up and hitting publish becomes much less scary.
I think the mistake that we all make is letting the fear of publishing get in the way of communicating valuable information with our audience, regardless of size.
It’s about adding value and solving problems for people. Yes, blogging is writing, obviously, but it’s a shorter form and hyper-targeted to address specific issues, either with the writer or with the intended audience. Or maybe it’s just to share something interesting, or perhaps it’s just to vent. Whatever it is, blogging seems to be more accurate to the writer’s actual voice, then any carefully crafted prose.
Want to improve your prose? READ EVERYTHING. And also write a lot, and even writing on your blog counts. And for Pete’s sake — hit PUBLISH.
