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6 Tips For Writing Content That Doesn’t Suck

  • August 26 2014
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Every content writer wants to create extremely insightful and useful material. However, this is sometimes easier said than done. This is especially the case when you want to create a large amount of content every day. You may find yourself writing posts that are down right crappy just to get a lot of content on your website, but this isn’t the answer. No one wants to read something that is badly written. Luckily, there are a few easy habits you can implement into your writing in order to produce well written content in a small amount of time. Here are six tips to writing content that doesn’t suck.

 

Look At Other Sources For Ideas

Nothing will waste your time more than sitting down in order to produce content and not having any idea what to write. To prevent this from happening, it is recommended that you scan a variety of sources to find good ideas on what to write about. It’s also beneficial to keep possible headline sources and newsletters in a folder to give you some ideas when you need it.

 

Keep a List of Good Ideas

Try to keep a list of content topics that you think up as you go about your day. You can keep track of these on your computer or in a simple notebook that you can whip out whenever you need something to write about. This allows you to avoid having to think up ideas one at a time, which can be a huge time waster.

 

Group Your Content Together

Creating content takes a bit of technical work. For instance, you may need to find pictures to add to your content, and so will have to create title tags and a photo credits. You also need to come up with a great title for each of your articles. It can save a huge amount of time by doing all the basic tasks for your content writing all at once. Once you start planning ahead, you can for instance, locate and upload the photos you want to use for multiple articles at once, which will save a substantial amount of time. This way you don’t have to hunt down the appropriate photos one by one.

 

Get Into a Rhythm

Everyone has a different time of day that they work best at. Some people do their best work early in the morning and some late at night. In other words you are more creative at certain times of days rather than others. Whenever you can, it is recommended that you follow your natural biological clock, and write when you are best suited to. By going against your natural clock you will end up spending a longer amount of time and the end result will probably not be as good. Instead of doing this, attempt to organize your life in order to keep your creative time free for you to write like crazy.

 

Write Ahead of Time

One of the biggest threats to writing content that is of high quality is when there’s a limited amount of time to produce it. If you are creating content the same day that is must be published then you are sacrificing the opportunity to revise. Instead, try to finish all your work at least two days before the due date.

 

Keep Things Simple

Often time’s writers end up rambling on or stretching out content to a point that it bores readers. Try to avoid this at all costs in order to keep your readers interested. If you have multiple ideas on one topic, avoid cramming it into one post; instead break it up into a series. Also look out for side issues that you are tempted to bring up, as they often are a dead-end anyway and not worth your reader’s time. Instead, if an idea pops into your head while you are writing on a certain topic, then simply put it on your ideas list in order to create another article on it. Keep in mind that a bit of advanced planning can go a long way, as well as keeping your topic tightly focused in cranking out better and more timely content.

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Cameron Mackey

Cameron is the Content Manager for the Vorongo Blog. He has spent three years in various content marketing roles. When he is not working with Vorongo he enjoys photography and hiking.

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