Zmoerf – Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any such resources and haven’t written many formal tutorials myself. My suggestion would be to not over think it and be natural. As long as you break up the process that you’re teaching into small, logical, and easy to understand steps, I think it should be fine. You can also have someone who is not knowledgeable about the topic to read your tutorial to see if they find it understandable and useful.

Alex – I agree and have also experienced the effect of a popular article giving me more inspiration to write more. It’s a great feeling!

Jude – Thank you! I’m a perfectionist and am unfortunately very familiar with what you described. For my first draft, I just freely write what comes to mind without worrying about the wording so that I’m less likely to lose my train of thought. However, when I start proofreading, it’s a much different

My favorite – well, where I get my biggest “high” is with poetry. That comes from deep within and get out before all of the “screening” and “judging”.

For me though I get my pleasure from bringing others benefit, inspiration or knowledge through my writing.

Juliet

Now, I wish I could experience the same high from running – it has eluded me for years!

Zmoerf – Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any such resources and haven’t written many formal tutorials myself. My suggestion would be to not over think it and be natural. As long as you break up the process that you’re teaching into small, logical, and easy to understand steps, I think it should be fine. You can also have someone who is not knowledgeable about the topic to read your tutorial to see if they find it understandable and useful.

Alex – I agree and have also experienced the effect of a popular article giving me more inspiration to write more. It’s a great feeling!

Jude – Thank you! I’m a perfectionist and am unfortunately very familiar with what you described. For my first draft, I just freely write what comes to mind without worrying about the wording so that I’m less likely to lose my train of thought. However, when I start proofreading, it’s a much different story.

I agree that there is something satisfying about pushing the publish button and I try not to be too much of a perfectionist about it.

I find that my writing flows best when I let go of trying to produce the perfect blog post. When I write purely from my heart,. I write really quickly and effortlessly and those are the posts that seem to be the most popular.

The blog posts that take the longest are the ones where my ego gets in the way. When I try too hard to produce something that my readers want to read, that’s when it feels difficult, clunky, takes a long time.

Switching to pen and paper is also a good way of allowing the writing to flow because the movement of your arm enables you to switch off your brain and write from the heart.

I guess that feeling of euphoria should always be taken advantage of. It’s a perfect mind state to write without any resistance.

thank’s for you article

Jonathan – It’s interesting that you mention this. I just read a book called StrengthsFinder which helps people assess their strengths. One of mine is being an “Achiever”, and the satisfaction of pressing the publish button definitely ties into this. It’s part of the reason why I find blogging to be rewarding and why I’d much rather write a number of articles than one large piece.

Paul – I completely agree and think what you described is something that we could all use a little more of!

Bryan – That’s great! As your experience clearly demonstrates, blogging certainly doesn’t have to be about traffic and popularity to be rewarding, and it doesn’t have to involve long posts either.

Steven – Thanks! I enjoy that anticipation as well!

Steve – I felt forced as well and think that’s a great way to explain it. I think many kids finish school with this mentality and it’s unfortunate because reading is such a great way to enrich your life. It took me a number of years after college to get into reading on my own and now I absolutely love it.

Chris – Ha, good catch! I suppose I deserve that. :) An easy mistake to make and a difficult one to catch. Unfortunately, I do it all the time with there and their even though I’m well aware of the difference between the two.

I couldn’t agree with you more.

If you find something or a combination of things you are really passionate about you’ll gonna love writing and learn a great deal out of it.

Klaus Tol