16 tricks to turn your Medium drafts into beautiful looking stories
A mini-guide to formatting your writing
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7 min readMay 21, 2019
Formatting tricks will never cover up poor writing. But poor formatting can ruin the reading experience no matter how good the writing is.
We’ve brought together 16 formatting tips to up your Medium game.
Formatting the above-the-fold section: titles, subtitles, hero image.
1. Couple your “title” with a “subtitle”
In the most cluttered marketplace in history, grabbing the attention of your readers begins even before they land on your story — think of platforms where people discover your post in the first place.
On social media newsfeeds or search engine result pages, your stories will appear only as a tiny preview: title, subtitle, and a thumbnail image.
And your subtitle, together with your main title, will heavily impact your story’s CTRs within those few minutes where people decide whether to click through or not.
