15 Ways to Improve Your Online Writing & Blogging.

Work on these writing weaknesses.

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1. What’s the elevator pitch? Distill your article to a single idea.
2. Start a swipe file. Compare your writing to others, see what they do differently. Try it and repeat.
3. Be clear on who you are writing for. One person. An auditorium. The whole world. Know the difference.
4. Identify the problems your writing can (help) solve.
5. Write 10 headlines for every post.
6. Write a full block of text. Then separate each sentence on its own line. Fill in the gaps. Or delete the sentences. Your choice.
7. Change the font size. Re-read the post. You’ll be surprised.
8. Improve one sentence. Then the next. And the next. It only gets better from there.
9. Use power words. They are cliche. But effective.
10. Go fast. Then slow. Vary the pace of your story.
11. Start with a problem. End with an answer.
12. Be conversational. You may want to say it first, record it as a voice memo, then edit it from there.
13. Don’t try to write like a writer.
14. Don’t try to improve everything at once.
15. Break some of these, but not all of them.

Josh Spilker is a content strategist for B2B companies and an author. Follow Create Make Write for more blogging and online writing tips.