Thoughts on Writing

By virtue of the fact you are reading this, we are sure you could have guessed that we enjoy writing.

Over the years we have written in books, journals, and for some pretty interesting websites.

During this time we have picked up some tips and tricks, which we want to share with you here.

• The main reasons why we shouldn't use click here as link text
  There are many reasons why we shouldn't use click here or similar as link text, let's go through them
• Blog posts are projects not action items
  Get more blog posts written by treating them as projects instead of action items
• Tools I Use When Blogging
  A summary of the tools I use when blogging, updated for 2019
• 10 Tips To Creating Better Essays. A Roadmap for Writers.
  10 Tips To Creating Better Essays. A Roadmap for Writers
• What I’ve learned from looking through my old posts
  Here are some things I’ve learned from looking through lots of old posts of mine
• How to overcome thinking that no one will find your posts useful
  How to overcome thinking that no one will find your posts useful
• 6 Months in and bowing out
  I am stopping my writing project early. I wanted to write daily for a year but couldn't quite manage it
• Quality of your Input and Output
  I try and prune my inputs as much as possible to keep the quality high
• The iPhone is my main content creation computer
  The iPhone is my main content creation computer, I do lots of stuff on it given how portable and powerful they have become
• Some useful resources for generating content ideas
  Here is a list of resources I found for generating content ideas
• A rough guide I am going to try and follow for blog posts
  Here's my thoughts on how I'm going to form my posts from now on
• 365 Articles in 2015
  My attempt at averaging writing an article per day in 2015
• Backup of Making Your Website Pay for Itself
  A backup of an ebook I wrote on making your website pay for itself
• Great content has no shelf life
  A great example of evergreen content from over 50 years ago
• Belfast Bloggers 3rd Meetup
  My thoughts and feelings on the third Belfast Bloggers Meetup
• Packt Publishing
  Here is a bit of an overview on my dealings with Packt Publishing
• Resources for making your website pay for itself
  Here are a list of resources which will help when getting your website to pay for itself
• Problems with Evergreen Content
  Here are some of the problems that I can see with creating evergreen content
• A case for writing unit tests for your blog posts
  Here's some thoughts on writing blog posts and how it relates to code
• Good things happen to those that blog
  Some good things that come from blogging about your work
• Got an article printed in the IEEE software journal
  I am very excited to be published in an industry journal