I thought it would be interesting to write a blog post on how I go about writing a blog post. It’s so I can see how it changes over the years, which I know it has over the years.<\/p>\n
The first thing I do is come up with ideas for the blog posts and then write them down. I place them in SimpleNote.<\/p>\n
For the posts I deem worthy of writing, I then outline them some more in SimpleNote. Some of that is done during my lunchtime or after-work walks. I do some outlining then too. I like thinking through how I want to say something in the post and work through how best to phrase or order my thoughts?<\/p>\n
Once that\u2019s done, I tend to throw those parts into something SimpleNote too.<\/p>\n
Next, I use WordPress to write the first draft of my post. During my writing process, I try not to edit as I go besides maybe fixing some spelling. I want to be able to get the idea out of my head.<\/p>\n
Once I’m done with the first draft, I then open up the Hemingway application. Usually, I use it, more importantly, to break up my run-on sentences from the first draft. The Hemingway application is useful to me to tell me the following type of things.<\/p>\n
Once I’m done with Hemingway, I paste the text into Grammarly, and then I do more editing. Grammarly does a better job of grammar checking. It even does a better job with spell-checking than the Hemingway application.<\/p>\n
I repeat that process once or twice more between the two applications.<\/p>\n
Once I feel like I’m done, I then paste my text back to WordPress to read through what I wrote as a whole. More to read through it to make sure it’s understandable and is logical.<\/p>\n
When I’m happy with things, I then add categories or tag words in WordPress. Then I will add headings where it needs to be broken up the long sections of text.<\/p>\n
I let the posts sit for a couple of hours or till the next day before reading it over again. I then reread it and do more editing if necessary.<\/p>\n
If I end up changing things, I use both Hemingway and Grammarly to check the updated parts of the post. I tend to want to double-check things.<\/p>\n
Once all that\u2019s done, it\u2019s time to create any links that need to be added. I don\u2019t want to have to re-add them if I add them too early.<\/p>\n
Then it’s time to publish my blog post.<\/p>\n
In January 2021, I published a post every day. I found people tended to read my posts if I tweeted about them around noon or early afternoon on weekdays. On weekends it depended on what the post’s subject was if there were more readers, according to the Twitter statistics.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t have any official numbers on how many people read my posts because I took Google analytics off my website and blog years ago. I did that, so Google wasn\u2019t tracking everybody that would come to my website or blog posts.<\/p>\n
Now I looked to post at least once a week and maybe two a week or a total of five or six posts a month.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s hoping this was useful to all that red to get a better understanding of my process.<\/p>\n
If you have any suggestions for other writing applications that might make writing blog posts easier. Please leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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