Pick a topic you can discuss at length

How to write a blog post

People have asked me how to get started once I pick a topic.

I have been thinking about what blog post to write next. People have asked me how I bring myself to write a blog post. People have asked me how to get started once I pick a topic. So here it is, the meta “How to write a blog post” blog post.

First of all, you need to pick a topic you can discuss at length, something you could talk about for five minutes. This is the hard part. I am confident you already can write about something you know. My process is as follows.

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You need a text editor. Open it up and write out a quick bullet point list of the structure of your post. I would suggest enough to prompt you if you lose flow. Here is the one I used for this post:

• White font on a white screen
• Review, spellcheck and grammar
• Write introductions to summarise
• Hemingway App
• Read it out loud

Next set the text colour to white on a white background. This takes care of your biggest enemy. Yourself. Write without worrying about spelling, grammar. The white font helps you reach flow state writing in your natural style of…