Writing blog posts can be pretty tricky- it’s tough to come up with a topic to write about and then actually create good enough content.

I’ve been blogging for more than 5 years now, and I wanted to share my tips for writing posts, from topic selection to hitting that publish button.

If you’re interested in my advice for starting a blog, I also have a post on that here.

1. How to Find a Topic

Sometimes, finding a topic for a blog post can be one of the most challenging aspects of writing it.

Don’t worry too much about having a unique topic – definitely don’t plagiarize somebody else’s post or copy their ideas, but people still read my React blog post even though this topic has been done a bunch of times by many excellent developers and writers, but I had a different outlook on the subject, so I decided to write it anyways.
Write a blog post on technical learning that would have helped you in the past. When you’re searching for something and not finding it, or you’re finding tutorials that aren’t helping very much, take note of it so that you can write your take later.
One thing I do is to reach out to my network and see what posts people want. I’ll occasionally post a Tweet asking what types of posts people want.
People also reach out to me on a pretty frequent basis asking for my advice in my Twitter DMs or opinions on things.
This DM is the inspiration for this blog post.
I make a note of those that I think will be of particular interest or relevance to a larger audience.
You can also look at sites like Quora or Reddit or HackerNews or Substack and see what other people are posting there. If a question is exciting to you, you could write a long-form response to it.For instance, I shared my take on engineering salaries in Europe and especially in Sweden.
Every individual software engineer or developer has a unique story — so share it!
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