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My Top Advice for Sobriety Bloggers
If you want to write about addiction, consider these recommendations.
This essay originally appeared in the Exploring Sobriety newsletter.
I love writing about sobriety. I started a sobriety blog about two years after I quit drinking, and in the five years since, I’ve written hundreds upon hundreds of posts.
The blog has done extraordinarily well, reaching over 25,000 followers and expanding into this newsletter. Even more importantly, keeping the blog has helped me to stay sober, and, from what readers have told me, it has helped many of them to stay sober too.
Although I know that not everyone loves to write as much as I do, I think that anyone who has quit drinking should at least give it a try. [I explained my thoughts on this in more detail in a newsletter that I sent out last year. You can check it out in the archive: Writing About Sobriety]
Today’s newsletter is a bit of a meta-topic. I’m going to share my advice about how to write about sobriety — specifically, how to write about sobriety for an online audience, such as a blog or newsletter.
These are the lessons that I’ve learned over the past five years, with a focus on how to use your writing to help strengthen your sobriety and help your readers…
