5 Things That Make Your Articles More Visually Appealing
You can improve your content without changing a single word.
One of the biggest mistakes I see new writers make is a lack of visual appeal. You can write best-seller 10/10 quality content and have it flop. If your article doesn’t have visual appeal, no one’s going to read it.
Since member reading time is how you get paid on Medium, it’s essential to write articles that people read for more than 5 seconds.
Take a look at these two screenshots of this article:
They’re the same words, but one is visually appealing, one isn’t.
Which one would you read?
I read a lot of articles online. Probably hundreds every week. I am much more likely to read an article that’s properly formatted.
Since they don’t teach you how to format online writing in school (at least, they didn’t when I went) here are five easy tips that will improve your articles visually.
1. Use short paragraphs
This is one of the biggest mistakes I see here on Medium and in social media captions.
