Bloggers write all the time, but few pay attention to improving their writing. Have you noticed the most successful bloggers tend to write extremely well? Practice, just writing a lot, helps, but practice does not make perfect. Here are three quick tips many find helpful to improve their blog writing.
1) Read your post out loud before publishing.
If you are in an office people might look at you funny, but this works amazingly well. It is actually an old writer's trick and it will help find grammatical errors and typos as well as improve the flow of your writing.
I don't do this with every post, but I do it quite often. I almost always find something I can fix or improve that a quick proofread may have missed. I even read my entire books out loud more than once before sending them to the publisher, despite several other levels of editing to follow.
2) Occasionally have someone else critically read and comment on your writing. What do they like? What don't they like? They don't need to be a better writer than you; they are a second opinion.
I occasionally have my wife or a friend review what I've written and discuss it. I always get feedback, and while it's not 100% useful, there are always useful pieces and insights I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
For my commercially published books I have an official editor, and their input is always valuable, even if I don't agree with or implement everything they suggest.
3) Consider taking a writing class. Most local community colleges offer them and you can also consider an online course.
These courses will most likely not focus specifically on blog writing nor should they necessarily. Many people are amazed how quickly their writing improves when they take a class. If nothing else it makes you focus and your writing gets a critical review and useful suggestions.
Writing is a critical business skill. Whether you blog or not, writing is something you want to improve. You don't need to be a great writer to blog successfully, but it can certainly help! The most successful bloggers tend to write extremely well. Improving your writing will improve your blog and make it more successful, and the best writers I know continually work on improving their writing.
And for over 100 more tips on successful blogging, I invite you to grab your free copy of my ebook Secrets of Successful Blogging at http://www.secretsofsuccessfulblogging.com
By Ted Demopoulos, author of "Blogging for Business" and "What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting"
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