Today, we’re talking all about our specialty: technical content. We’ll cover everything you need to know about what technical content, like what is, what it isn’t, what skills you need to write it well, and where to find great examples of it. That’s enough preamble. Let’s get into some questions you probably have if you’re…
Writing conclusions for blog posts should be simple enough. After all, you’ve already done the hard part—in the meat of the post, you’ve carefully, deliberately communicated the main information you want the reader to take away. But there’s something about a truly fabulous conclusion that’s hard to put your finger on. It feels more like…
Ever see a tutorial with a screenshot that looks like this? If so, you know a tutorial is only as good as its screenshots. Readers shouldn’t have to squint their eyes and hope the letters reveal themselves like in an optical illusion. Ugh. Let’s spare our readers the headaches. Here are the keys to taking…
Welcome back to our series on overcoming common writing problems! In the first post in the series, we talked about making sure you’ve locked down the essential elements of a post—an intro, a “this post is about” sentence, good subheads, and a conclusion. This time, we’re going to talk about more big picture stuff. Specifically,…
Hello! My name’s Amanda, and I’ve edited hundreds of tech blog posts. As you can imagine, I have a pretty good idea of what, on average, bloggers grapple with. Today, I want to talk about the very first thing you should master: the basic elements that make your post intuitive to follow. More specifically, we’re…
Today, we’ve got something a little different on the blog. We’re featuring one of our first authors, who joined Hit Subscribe when it first formed. That author is Christian Meléndez. Christian’s specialties—DevOps, containers, and cloud architecture—have made his writing in high demand from the start. Potential clients see his posts on other sites and ask for him…
Maybe you’ve never heard of blank page syndrome. I mean, it’s a term I made up, so chances are pretty good it’s new to you. But you know what it is, I promise. It’s the feeling of opening up a WordPress draft or a new Word document (or pulling out a fresh sheet of paper,…
There are a lot of things that about writing you can’t automate. But there’s also a few that you can. So far, no cool robot is going to help you form the structure of your argument. And while you can get the internet to generate your metal band’s name or corporate gibberish boilerplate, you probably can’t…
Images. You know your blog posts need them. But they’re sure a pain to whip up, aren’t they? You can craft things by hand with various levels of effort, using anything from Canva (excellent for non-designers, if you want to take time) to GIMP (powerful and free but a steep learning curve) to Adobe Spark (easy to use…
At Hit Subscribe, we’re facing a bit of a problem. Here’s some background. We have a team of authors who write for our growing number of clients. A few of our authors are specialists, and they pair well with clients who want their blog to focus on niche topics. But for clients who just want…
I have a personal blog. It’s about literature, a lifelong love of mine and my main area of study. For many years, this blog was a geeksplosion of shop-talk, assumptions, and general thinking aloud in the area in which I’d consider myself an expert. Want posts about zines at the crossroads of art and craft?…
You’ve probably heard at some point or another that your blog post needs an image. But why? Google the question, and you’ll get a lot of wishy-washy reasons and unsubstantiated claims. This post’s number one reason you should include image is because “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Then, rather than explain why this is relevant,…