Today I am publishing my hundredth post since I started to be part of the writers that make life in read.cash, that's seven months ago. Being on this platform has motivated me to be better at writing every day. Like every beginning, the first contents were of "exploration". I had no idea how to "put together" in an interesting way the ideas I wanted to transmit, how to transmit all the ideas I had in my mind? That was and still is, my main concern when writing.
My first publications were, metaphorically speaking, like "a baby taking its first steps", I wanted to run and I didn't know-how. This is not to say that today I can express my ideas without stumbling, not at all, I still lack 100 or more publications to reach the category of a good writer, but right now I feel that I "crawl like a baby", with more security.
At the beginning, and I still do, I focused my attention on the way the writers I read and who publish on read.cash narrate their content. Each writer has a particular and different style of storytelling. It is very interesting to discover the personality of the writer in each content. We have writers with many interesting contents of their life routine, personal experiences, past and present experiences, a lot of futuristic vision and above all we have a world of knowledge of content narrated in an informative way for experts who dominate the subject of the crypto world and another way of narrating in an educational way for those who like me are looking for simple and easy to understand information on the subject of cryptocurrencies, content that we are all passionate about. I confess without any problem that I am still like Socrates when he said his famous phrase; "I only know that I know nothing", that is, I am in "diapers and crawling".
I am comforted to know that I am not the only person looking for a narrative way to put together interesting ideas and how to translate those amazing ideas into even more interesting and impactful content. The main advice I can humbly give to all the people who are just starting to publish is that the best tool a writer has to improve their content is the constant practice of publishing posts, as well as reading and commenting on other writers' content on the read.cash platform. Today I publish my 100th article and I'm still learning how to write content. I have improved a bit. Today I want to tell, according to my experience, how to write good content in four steps.
First step: We have to start with a motivating topic, here we are often uninspired or lack ideas. It happens to me a lot, it's hard for me to find ideas. But you have to focus on a topic, any topic can be useful, a trip you made in the past, a lost love, experiences with your children, celebration meetings with the family, current issues, the most important thing is to write about some knowledge that you master. It is important that it is a motivating topic, that creativity drives you to the need to tell a story. Telling stories of personal experiences is a good exercise to acquire creative writing. The beginning of a story is of utmost importance because if you make an uninteresting beginning you will not be able to capture the reader's attention.
Once you have the topic to write about, the second step is to think about the effect you want to convey to the reader. Do you want your content to be a topic of reflection? a mystery? a humorous content that makes you laugh? a constructive criticism? an andragogic teaching content? you must think about it very well. You have to be clear about the effect you will have on the readers. The interest you awaken in the reader will depend on whether they will continue to read you in the future.
As a third step, I recommend that you think about who is going to tell the story, yes, who will be the protagonist of your narrative. The story you write will be told by you or by an imaginary friend who will tell the story. In many of my publications, I narrate them as the protagonist, like today's for example, telling my personal experience of reaching the number 100 in my posts, in other stories I invent the protagonist who has nothing to do with me.
As the last step, taking into account that you already know the theme, you know what you are going to transmit, and you know who will tell the story, now we have to set a final goal, to make the masterful closing of the story. The important thing is to make an interesting closing, even asking questions to the reader so that the literary bond between writer and reader is not lost, thus maintaining interest on the part of the reader to comment on what he or she has read at the end of your story.
In conclusion, I can only say to you: write! Don't stop writing. When you write you will practice, each content will improve, your own experience when publishing will give you the guidelines to grow in your personal development as a writer. The more content you publish, the better you will get at writing over time and you will be rewarded with more people reading, commenting, and following your stories. This is from a new writer who today publishes her hundredth post and seeks to convey ideas with interesting content.
Tell me about your experience as a writer?
Does it take you time to go through the steps to write good content?
Thank you, thank you all so much for being part of my story today.
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I had a motivational journey and I already shared many time in my articles to inspire newbies. Just sharing the glimpse of my journey. I opened my account on read cash 9 months ago, but at that time could you believe I was not able to read articles because my english was week enough and all the time I was thinking that I will not understand this no matter how much efforts I am going to put in it. I make my account here with the help of my friend. Then I leave my account here for months and I started using noise cash where I started making posts in english two to three lines. After few months I came back to this platform and I published my first article which consumed my 3 days hehe, yes I wrote one article in 3 days. Then I again after 5 months now I can write one article in just half an hour of 800 words only if I know the topic. Hope you like my journey professor.