By Peter Normandia of YinvsYang
“Thereʼs nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
-Walter Wellesley ʻRedʼ Smith
If you have a moment, Iʼd like to travel back in time to when you were bored out of your mind in history class, watching the clock move backwards as the teacher mumbled meaningless dates, documents, and names. Remember how hard it was to memorize all of that information?
Well that was my experience. I just didnʼt realize it would help me become a better writer some day. However, when I first began my personal development blog, I started out writing posts very much like my old history teachers gave lessons. I would…
- lay out the problem(s)
- tell my solution(s)
- follow up with supporting ideas/facts
- finish off with a conclusion
It was like reading a school essay, and that is no way to build traffic. Readers did not respond to it just like I did not respond to those history lessons.
Connecting with Readers
To get a response, I needed to give them something to identify with. Read more »
