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The WordPress blog post editor

Clarify your point by being precise and adding details. Sometimes, this even means stating what

may be obvious to you. Otherwise, the in-joke of the day may not be understood by readers—

perhaps not even yourself!—some years ahead.

Use a spellchecker program for your posts. This way, they become more readable. This is

especially useful if you convert the blog articles to a book chapter; though people may be used to

one or two spelling errors in a blog post, we usually expect a much lower frequency in books.

Write about a single topic or set of topics. Over time, this will turn you into an expert in that eld,

rendering your articles all that more valuable (we all like expert advice). Also, this will make it

easier to turn your blog into a book, as the book will now have a single theme.

Use self-explanatory, precise titles for your posts. Otherwise, you might have a hard time digging

through your archive to nd material for your book.

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If you feel restricted by Blogspot, Google Page Creator, or Google

Groups, look beyond these offerings—there are loads of good (and

partly free) alternatives around.

Before deciding which tool is right for you, understand what you’re after: a blog, ...