Friday, November 21, 2014

My Writing Skills Stink - How To Be A Blogger

My Writing Skills Stink - How To Be A Blogger?

6 Useful Tips That Will Save You!

One of the key skill sets required for blogging is some decent writing skills. Unfortunately, not all of us are blessed with good writing skills, so does that mean that blogging is only for award winning writers? What if my writing skills should stink? How to be a successful blogger even if your writing skills stink?

Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a Booker Prize winner of the year to be a good blogger. All that it needs is some decent capabilities to put together grammatically correct sentences. Is blogging that simple? Probably not, you need little more than the ability to construct grammatically correct sentences. You should be able to express your ideas and what you are thinking clearly through writing and not just make people understand what you are trying to say but to WOW people with what you are saying. Tough luck, hey! There should be some way around it and some way to get on to the blogging band wagon without needing to have exceptional writing skills.

Let us look at some of the ways to go round your limitations.
  1. There are different blog writing styles. You should look for writing styles that will hide your limitations. For example, people love statistical data. Rather than writing thousands of words, you can bank on your ability to source statistics and compile them meaningfully and impress your readers. Just make sure to present the statistics with the right references and never, never make up the statistics because if you do, you will lose your credibility.
  2. Make use of screen shots to create your story. This way, you can minimize the number of words that you have to write. However, you will have to remember the big brother Google and Google’s requirements. Google is not going to be too happy with skimpy content. Of course, you can leverage from the images by optimizing the image titles for getting better visibility in Google’s image search.
  3. Try using bulleted text whereby you keep the text length short. This will help you camouflage your stinking writing skills.
  4. Hire a writer to take care of your handicap. You share your ideas with your writer and give the pointers to build upon, the writer that you hire can take care of your blog writing needs professionally and give you an irresistible post developed from your seed idea. As the idea is yours, you can post the article in your own name without feeling guilty. You can use this method not only when you have limited writing skills but also if you have limited time. If you need assistance in writing your blog posts, you can get in touch with me and I will be happy to assist.
  5. Today people are recording their voice and uploading it online. They are better talkers than writers and such people prefer to bank on their talking skills. You can try it to create your blog, then you can just create the transcript of what you have spoken word for word to leverage the content benefit. You can even hire a transcriptionist to handle this task. This way, you will be able to become a popular blogger without really writing.
  6. Another popular strategy is to make use of video blogs. You can take a video of the topic that you would like to discuss and post it in your blog along with the transcription of the video.
These are some of the ways to get around your limitations. It is also not a bad idea to work on improving your writing skills. It might not improve overnight but, if you keep reading online resources like Blogxical and other resources on building blogs, you will get a hang of it and you will be able to create stunning blog posts of your own without having to go around your ears to touch your nose. When you do improve your writing skills, you will be even more versatile blogger believe me because you will be now well versed in using other content formats and not just the written text. You will be able to use statistics, audio, video, image, etc to spice up your blogs. Your blogs will stand out from the rest of the blogs that just limit themselves to textual content. In the world of Google, textual content has a very important role to play but using multiple content platforms will certainly have a decisive impact on your blog.


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