Tips For Writing Online

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Many of us interact on social networks everyday. For anyone who is interested in writing online such as blogs or free lance in writing online when have the time work hard in writing about their interests or things that might spark interests for their potential readers online. I take a college class called 'Mass Media: Online Writing' with professor Rachael Hanel (https://twitter.com/rachael18.) She brought in a special guest-Shane Frederick-who writes for the Free Press (http://mankatofreepress.com/) in Mankato, MN to our class room Monday. He also has a blog he does called 'Puckato' (http://mankatofreepresshockey.blogspot.com/ .) Here is some tips I thought I'd share from two writing experts with journalism backgrounds:

1. Word Length- Depending on the device a reader decides to read from, you probably don't want to read a super long article. The typical length that's short and sweet is 300-800 words.

2. Interaction- We all read and read blogs. But you probably want the chance to interact with readers or the author of the post you're reading. My suggestion is hinting to the readers to feel free to comment after what you write or create polls, ask the readers what they would like to see. That way you know what the readers would like to see.

3. Visuals- When you look up stuff to read online, you don't just expect to read just words. When writing a blog/article for a website, take pictures and videos and post them so people will stay interested and show them how it relates to a piece of writing.

4. Self Promotion- When you decide to start writing yourself, it may take awhile for a lot of readers to circulate in to read your stuff. Ways to help self promote yourself. How you ask? Create a Twitter account for your blog or create a Facebook group or page. That way more people will know more about your blog.

5. Sourcing- Whenever you take and image, phrasings, or a whole paragraph of something, be sure to create links to show where you got that source, otherwise you are stealing another persons creation. Give credit to the person if you use their work.

6. Interesting thing you might want to know- If you want to embed a Twitter post onto your blog, on your twitter post, click on more and then click embed. The you copy the code lists, past it on the blog post you are currently doing and when you hit post it will be there.

I hope what you read will be of use to any aspiring writings who wish to start writing online. Thank you for reading my post. Feel free to share and subscribe.