How to Plan Your Digital Writing?

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Reciprocal

4 min readAug 22, 2022

I have been writing online for around more than ten months.

The biggest lesson I learned from this experience is that I did not have any concrete plan on what to write and how to enrich my portfolio as a writer.

I used to write randomly and haphazardly based on my intuition only, as creativity does not follow any rule, regulation, or system.

After ten months of writing, I realize that planning is required to post our writing regularly on online platforms.

It’s crucial as we are writing as a writer where consistency is the key to writing.

If we want to be regular or consistent in our writing journey, we must have a clear idea about what would be our story topics.

Knowing your niche

After writing for some months, naturally, you will find out your interest area and what topics of your stories grab readers’ interest.

There are many success stories where professional and experienced writers succeed through general writing.

Yet after a certain period, most prefer to grow expertise or specialize in a particular one to 3 or 4 niches.

If one fine morning we are writing about technology, another day, we are writing parenting, and another day about romance, we will not have any specialized areas of writing.

But, we, the writers, want to create our position in readers’ minds.

We must be sure about our writing persona or individuality.

We have to choose what would be our niche.

If your blog writing is a tree, what would be its root?

Any guesses?

It’s your niche.

For example, your niche is health, and then every article, story, or nonfiction blog post would be anything to do with health.

Give your root adequate nutrition so that your tree grows nicely.

Do little research on your niche, what your target audience is interested to read, and how you can add value to your readers. — Working on these is like nutrition for your writing.

What’s next?

Creativity follows its natural passage with time.

However, we can at least brain work on ideas of topics to ensure the continuity and momentum of our writing.

Research what the readers are curious to know.

Try to search (mainly through online search engines) what the readers of your niche are looking for, what their problems are, and try to come up with the answers to their questions.

Try to craft stories that touch readers ‘ pain or gain points.

Niche + Questions= Your story

Once we identify the targeted niche or niches, we can sit down and think and divide those into several headings and then dig more to find the subheadings.

Niche topic- break down- break down- little insights.

For example, one of my niches is writing on writing.

In that case, I can broadly divide it into three categories for example,

1. Writing tips related

2. Lessons Learned

3. Writing, author branding, marketing

If we dig down the topics, you will have food for thought for crafting our stories:

Broad topics and sub-topics relevant to the niche are like branches and leaves (Crown/canopy) of the writing tree. It has the vital job of making food for the tree. Similarly, your topics and sub-topics will give you food for thought to craft your story.

Your story is the fruit or final output of your writing.