Why Writing improves over Time

This post caught by eye over at Problogger – “Your first 10,000 blog posts are always the worst”

Recently I was looking through an old SEO blog I had on another domain. The posts were written over a year ago, but, there was nothing that I particularly wanted to use here. The writing wasn’t particularly high quality and there were quite a few mistakes.

In the past year, I have been writing regularly every day. I can’t say writing has got much easier, but, I think the constant practise has enabled, at least, a small improvement.

If you were playing the piano, you wouldn’t expect to play your best straight off. You would expect it to take several years. Writing is not quite the same, but, there still is that element of progress.

Tips for New Writers 

• Be Patient
• Keep practising.
• Don’t be in a rush to submit your early articles to Digg. Make sure they are your best efforts until you try to promote them.
• Don’t spend too long going back to improve old posts. It is better just to leave them and go on to creating new posts.
• Don’t expect to write superb articles at your first attempts.
• You may find 6 months later, you can have another go at an article. This time it will be more polished because you have more experience and have developed your writing style.