Do not get stuck thinking when is the right time. Any time you have a topic in hand and the willingness to start is the right time.
For me, it started with helping my colleagues with customer documentations. Anything can be a trigger.
Do you have a BLOG? Do you aspire to start as a TECHNICAL CONTENT WRITER? I have a few tips for you.
Here are 10 lessons from my TECHNICAL BLOGGING journey and a few Bonus tips. 🔥
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Do not get stuck thinking when is the right time. Any time you have a topic in hand and the willingness to start is the right time.
For me, it started with helping my colleagues with customer documentations. Anything can be a trigger.
The topic IDEA is always around you. There are two possibilities,
1. You are good at something
2. You want to be good at something
These possibilities build your niche in the technical areas. Tap on what you want to learn or share. You got your topic.
Yes, It's hard to create value with writing without reading. Build a reading habit to write better. Start side projects to write using your first-hand experiences.
Reading and side-projects around a technical area give you ample ideas to write.
You are unique, your style is unique, your expressions are unique, your writing will be unique too. Your writing style is a reflection of who you are.
Be AUTHENTIC. Inspiration is ok but No need to borrow the style. Your style gonna work.
It's perfectly fine to start writing as a hobby. I did the same way. But to get the most out of it or build a career around it, you need to translate the Hobby into a Habit.
You do it by putting yourself on a roadmap like 1 article a week for a month!
You need to have a plan. Note down each and every topic that comes to your mind. You may not end up write articles for all of them but note them down.
Have a plan for at least a week ahead.
I use the Notion tool to plan.
Do the creative work when you are most active in the day. Do not hurry because of tiredness or other work.
Primarily 4 areas to focus on,
- Cover: An image that is related to your content.
- Title: A precise title of the topic.
- Description: A short description of the content
- Content Body: The actual content where you want your readers to focus.
Give attention to the cover image. Gradually I realized, the more time you give to a cover design, the more creative you become about it. The good news is you don't have to be a UX expert for that.
I use Canva(free plan) to create the cover. Here is a few samples.
The cover and title are the most visible things of your article to your readers. When they visit your article, it is 100% assured, they will read these. So use them as the entry card to your article content.
Here are a few title structure works best for me
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A description(aka, meta description) is very useful for your article's SEO. A search engine like Google suggests the title, description, and URL SLUG within a character limit.
You can use any SERP tool to frame all of them. Here is an example 👇
Ok, now the heart of the article, the actual content. I've seen much great content that doesn't get the deserved traction because it is not organized well. Structure the content body in multiple logical sections.
Use headings. Going up to 3 levels down is fine.
It is important but you don't have to know at the beginning. Once you move from Hobby to Habit, you may have to find your target readers.
Are you writing for beginners? Intermediate, or experienced? Stick to it for a while before changing.
Review the draft well for spelling mistakes, grammatical issues. You can use the following tools,
- Grammarly
- Hemingway App
Note: You still need to review it manually a couple of times after using the tools. Publish as you want. Again, no auspicious time.
I encourage republishing your articles to many other platforms. Please make sure to set the 'canonical' URL so that the search engine doesn't count the republished piece as a duplicate.
After publishing?
https://t.co/yLy8HWrChT
As a content creator, you must continue to engage with it even after publishing.
— Tapas Adhikary (@tapasadhikary) October 8, 2021
- Take questions(if any) and Clarify doubts.
- Respond to comments.
- Take the opportunity to Thank people
- Ignore negativity.
- Take constructive feedback
- Update the content(if needed)
I believe in these,
- WORD COUNT doesn't matter for your own blog.
- It's fine if you are writing on EXISTING topics.
- PERFECTION is subjective. Don't go for it.
- Views will come only when u are CONSISTENT with writing.
- A good blogger is a Gr8 EDITOR.
Where to start from? Check out these platforms,
- .@hashnode
- .@freeCodeCamp News
- .@ShowwcaseHQ
- .@ThePracticalDev
- .@thedevdojo
With quality blogging comes many opportunities,
- Paid writing
- Freelancing
- eBooks
- Jobs
- Notion: https://t.co/Mw1XRgj5if
- Canva : https://t.co/0eK2MeI9Fa
- Grammarly: https://t.co/RUK30KLGd9
- Hemmingway App: https://t.co/dGuY10U8G6
- SERP: https://t.co/oT4X2Aaxj9
- My technical writing experience is a little more than two years.
- Overall, I have written close to 200 articles so far including my Hashnode powered blog, freeCodeCamp news, CSS-Tricks, and paid engagements.
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One of those strategies which I like is Iron Fly✈️
Few important points on Iron fly stategy
This is fixed loss🔴 defined stategy ,so you are aware of your losses . You know your risk ⚠️and breakeven points to exit the positions.
Risk is defined , so at psychological🧠 level you are at peace🙋♀️
How to implement
1. Should be done on Tuesday or Wednesday for next week expiry after 1-2 pm
2. Take view of the market ,looking at daily chart
3. Then do weekly iron fly.
4. No need to hold this till expiry day .
5.Exit it one day before expiry or when you see more than 2% within the week.
5. High vix is preferred for iron fly
6. Can be executed with less capital of 3-5 lakhs .
https://t.co/MYDgWkjYo8 have R:2R so over all it should be good.
8. If you are able to get 6% return monthly ,it means close to 100% return on your capital per annum.
One of those strategies which I like is Iron Fly✈️
Few important points on Iron fly stategy
This is fixed loss🔴 defined stategy ,so you are aware of your losses . You know your risk ⚠️and breakeven points to exit the positions.
Risk is defined , so at psychological🧠 level you are at peace🙋♀️
How to implement
1. Should be done on Tuesday or Wednesday for next week expiry after 1-2 pm
2. Take view of the market ,looking at daily chart
3. Then do weekly iron fly.
4. No need to hold this till expiry day .
5.Exit it one day before expiry or when you see more than 2% within the week.
5. High vix is preferred for iron fly
6. Can be executed with less capital of 3-5 lakhs .
https://t.co/MYDgWkjYo8 have R:2R so over all it should be good.
8. If you are able to get 6% return monthly ,it means close to 100% return on your capital per annum.
So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
THREAD PART 1.
On Sunday 21st June, 14 year old Noah Donohoe left his home to meet his friends at Cave Hill Belfast to study for school. #RememberMyNoah💙
He was on his black Apollo mountain bike, fully dressed, wearing a helmet and carrying a backpack containing his laptop and 2 books with his name on them. He also had his mobile phone with him.
On the 27th of June. Noah's naked body was sadly discovered 950m inside a storm drain, between access points. This storm drain was accessible through an area completely unfamiliar to him, behind houses at Northwood Road. https://t.co/bpz3Rmc0wq
"Noah's body was found by specially trained police officers between two drain access points within a section of the tunnel running under the Translink access road," said Mr McCrisken."
Noah's bike was also found near a house, behind a car, in the same area. It had been there for more than 24 hours before a member of public who lived in the street said she read reports of a missing child and checked the bike and phoned the police.
On Sunday 21st June, 14 year old Noah Donohoe left his home to meet his friends at Cave Hill Belfast to study for school. #RememberMyNoah💙
He was on his black Apollo mountain bike, fully dressed, wearing a helmet and carrying a backpack containing his laptop and 2 books with his name on them. He also had his mobile phone with him.
On the 27th of June. Noah's naked body was sadly discovered 950m inside a storm drain, between access points. This storm drain was accessible through an area completely unfamiliar to him, behind houses at Northwood Road. https://t.co/bpz3Rmc0wq
"Noah's body was found by specially trained police officers between two drain access points within a section of the tunnel running under the Translink access road," said Mr McCrisken."
Noah's bike was also found near a house, behind a car, in the same area. It had been there for more than 24 hours before a member of public who lived in the street said she read reports of a missing child and checked the bike and phoned the police.
A THREAD ON @SarangSood
Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result
He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
I am quite different from your style. I follow the market's volatility very closely. I have mock positions in 7-8 different strategies which allows me to stay connected. Whichever gives best profit is usually the one i trade in.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) August 13, 2019
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
Anilji most of the time these days Theta only falls when market moves. So the Theta actually falls where market has moved to, not where our position was in the first place. By shifting we can come close to capturing the Theta fall but not always.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) June 24, 2019
3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result
He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
This week has been great so far. The main aim is to be in the right side of the volatility, rest the market will reward.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) July 3, 2019
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
There is a difference between theta decay & fall in vega. Decay is certain but there is no guaranteed profit as delta moves can increase cost. Fall in vega on the other hand is backed by a powerful force that sells options and gives handsome returns. Our job is to identify them.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) February 12, 2020