5 Common Mistakes That Make Your Content Boring

We don’t want fluff.

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Even the best ideas can die in the face of bad writing.

You want to be interesting and useful. Sacrificing one for the other kills your momentum; if you’re useful but not interesting, no one will finish your articles, and if you’re interesting but not useful, no one will subscribe to you.

We read a headline and open articles expecting a full package. Failing to deliver it completely will lead to a dull article with minimum traffic.

Here are the 5 Mistakes to avoid for a more useful and interesting article:

You Explain More Than You Show

We want to take something from you, and over-explaining feels like an extra effort to increase your word count. Explain the topic and give your opinion, but don’t go over 100 words without giving actionable details and examples that help the reader absorb more of the article.

It’s suffocating to go through 200–300 words that provide no additional input than the header.

Your Words Lack Personality

You need to be unique in your writing, write how you talk and you will see engagement skyrocket. The English lessons we take in…