A portion of skill set possessed by most bloggers is nothing but exhibition of good content writing. This special skill is somewhat phenomenal and can therefore be possessed by anyone even outside blogging. Being a good and magnificent content writer isn't a day job and it therefore takes quite a lot of practice.
As much as this skill set doesn't come like a piece of cake, it is as well as simple as a piece of cake if given enough dedication and consistency.
However, I'm not writing this as if I have a special credential to speak and mentor about good content writing. Thus, this is somewhat an advice to the newbies. In point of fact, as much as it's an advice to the newbies, I also see it as an advice even to myself cause I can view myself few months back when I just came into hive platform.
Your presence on this platform shouldn't just be only for you to earn hive but also to bring something motivating, creative and idealistic for the people who are gonna be reading your posts.
I'd love to share few tips relative to my topic of how and why you should write right and I believe by the end of this post you must have found one point which you can work towards achieving.
HAVE AN INFORMATION
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One of the predominant characteristics of a good writer is knowing what to write, in what way and in what amount. Therefore the best thing that keeps a writer afloat is when he/she knows what to write, and to know what to write is as well as having a good and tangible information in this case they tends to write even faster. Hence, someone who is anticipating of being good in terms of writing is expected to work towards this aspect.
BE MORE SPECIFIC
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Also to be a good writer, one has to learn how to be more specific and direct in his or her content. This makes people see your content as a clear and straight forward message, which means you don't have to verbally explain to people what they've read already.
This will also not give room for people to keep asking you questions in the comment box based on the fact that they couldn't understand what you've written.
MAKE YOUR WORDS APPREHENSIVE
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Any writer is expected to keep in mind that keeping words used in a content as simple as possible makes it well understandable to the readers. Therefore, it's not really necessary to make use of ambiguous terms or words in a post for it may retard your readers from trying to understand the information you're trying to pass across to them in the post. Hence, comprehensive and apprehensive words are much appreciated when trying to compute a content.
KEEP PARAGRAPHS SHORT
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Naturally people find it more difficult to read contents with few or no paragraphs. And it is very well known to us that we aren't just writing for just our benefit but rather for people who's gonna be reading. In this respect, it is our responsibility to keep the paragraph short as much as we can in other for people not to get tired of reading our contents.
AVOID PLAGIARISM
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This is a very critical aspect to take note of. What is plagiarism in simple term? It is regarded as the act of stealing other people's creative work, ideas or content in any form at which it may come from your side of perspective without the author's consent or permission and thereby portraying it as your own. However, above all skills a writer is expected to take note of, plagiarism is expected to be extremely avoided.
Moreover, in a platform like Hive we all know that plagiarism is so prohibited and I believe this vital rule is also applied to other platforms that has to do with sharing of ideas.
Also, plagiarism makes you limit yourself of ability to think because it will always make you think that you can't make ideas and contents on your own without stealing other people's own which is a negative and bad habit to work with.
READ
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One of the best way to become a good writer is to READ. Reading in this case doesn't have to necessary be reading loads of novels before you can be good in writing. However, hive platform gives you room to check on other people's post, read and make comments. Therefore reading of other people's post gives you more insight and ideas on how to structure and make your own good contents.
This habit of reading doesn't only assist you in terms of insight and ideas of making posts, it also assist your presence on this very platform because you tend to make comments when you read often which makes people notice your engagement and thereby making you firm on the platform.
MAKING REFERENCES
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This aspect of writing helps to avoid and also correct plagiarism. Referencing simply means siting the source of previously published work in other to avoid our previously discussed plagiarism. This section is expected to be noted especially when you are trying to add images on your posts. This is because some image designs are to be paid for which means they are considered not to be free images.
In this regards, there are quite a lot of website that has put together free images for people who would like to make use of them in their posts or other forms of publication. Therefore every newbie is expected to take note of these websites before downloading images for post so as not to end up plagiarizing
List of free images websites
- https://www.pexels.com
- https://unsplash.com
- https://pixabay.com
- https://www.shutterstock.com
- https://www.rawpixel.com
- https://burst.shopify.com
- https://www.freeimages.com
- https://kaboompics.com
How to source your images
Beneath every of your images;type [scource](paste your image link)
However, to make your own image designs you can take few tutorial on how to make use of Canva and some other image designing app.
This tips should really guide you on how to keep track on having a good and effective contents.
PEACE!!