Shilpan Patel of Success Soul has a guest post at Write To Done about 7 Certain Ways to Crucify Your Content.

Skellie writes about How to Develop an Efficient Post Frequency and Six Lessons I Could Only Learn by Letting My Blog Go.

Justin Tadlock has Tips on using and developing for WordPress happily. The post includes a link to a turotial about installing Xampp and WordPress on your own computer, running local which makes testing things a lot easier.

WriteToDone has Darren Rowse in Conversation: Top Tips for Writers. The interview has many greet tips.

WordPrezzie has some great WordPress Security Tips.

David Airey has redesigned his blog, Orange anyone? The new look is fresh and simplistic.

ProBlogger gives us 24 Things to do When Stuck for a Topic to Blog About.

DailyBlogTips has a great post about The Art of Writing Catchy Articles: 11 Simple Tips.

Freelance Folders has 7 Unmissable Tips For Writing Great Content For The Web.

Copyblogger has The Deceptively Simple Steps to Persuasive Writing That Works, The Zig-Zag Method for Catching Attention and Building Credibility and The Mr. Spock Guide to Effective Blogging.

Think Simple Now has a post about how to Connect with Your Creative Writer.

CopyBlogger has a guest post by Yuwanda Black about 3 Things to Consider When Deciding How Long Your Blog Posts Should Be.

Chris Garrett writes about What Are You Saying Between the Lines? Is your inner dialog revealed between the lines of your writing?

Skellie writes about How to Write Like a Painter where she picks a painters way of working and applies it to writing.

Once you have an idea for an article it’s relatively easy to work out what you want to say. It’s the how that trips us up, so often causing writer’s block. We’re trying to paint a masterpiece in the first sweep, when every great masterpiece grows from very humble beginnings.

Anna Goldsmith has a guest post at Copyblogger about Five Easy Steps to Editing Your Own Work. Editing can be boring but is needed to make things as correct as possible.

DailyWritingTips has a post with 34 Writing Tips That Will Make You a Better Writer. It is a useful collection of tips from readers. I like this one:
Learn the rules of good writing… then learn when and how to break them.

Brian Clark at Copyblogger writes about How to Use the “Rule of Three” to Create Engaging Content.

You see the Rule of Three used all the time across diverse areas of life. Why? Because information presented in groups of three sticks in our heads better than other clusters of items.

DailyBlogTips has a guest post by Mike Smith about The Art of the Follow-Through: Every Great Headline Needs an Even Better Opening Paragraph.

You should be using your headline as an attention grabber and something that’s going to sting when hit with it, or in the blogger’s case, it should grasp the reader’s attention. Your introduction paragraph should be a combination of punches that really rock the reader and stop them from moving forward to the next website.

Mike rounds off his post with “The knockout blow: The final paragraph”.

Leo Babauta posts at North x East about 12 Ways to Turn a Boring Post into Pure Gold.

If you write well you want to be seen, Leo Babauta has a post at Copyblogger about Go Big or Go Home: Why Being Bold is Critical to Getting Noticed.

Do you sometimes have a problem with getting started? Check out Ready, Set, Write! at DailyWritingTips.

One of the biggest problems people have with writing is getting started. A blank page (or computer screen) can be intimidating, but prewriting is a great way to overcome that intimidation.

Note: Photo by J Wynia.

I’ve created Write To Done as a way to share some of what I’ve learned as a writer, with new (and experienced) writers looking to improve their craft and their art. That’s what Write To Done is about, at its core: the craft and the art of writing. But from that core we’ll be covering many topics: journalism, blog writing, freelance writing, fiction, non-fiction, getting a book deal, the business of writing, the habit of writing. And so on.

I like the fact that there are few posts a week, that gives me a much better chance to stay up to date with the blog.

The design Leo picked for Write To Done is WordPress Grid Focus which Skellie uses for her two blogs. Actually Skellie has helped Leo with the blog layout, it says “Additional customization thanks to Skellie of Skelliewag.org”.

Brian Clark at Copyblogger writes about Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well which actually are four of Hemingway’s and one of Brian’s. Rule number one, Use short sentences, is worth keeping in mind. It does make the text more reader-friendly.

Skellie posts about Little Words, Big Meaning, your writing can be short (under 200 words) and still meaningful. I like shorter posts, if you got much to say about a topic then why not create a series of posts instead of one long.

Sarah Lewis at Blogging Expertise writes about Four tips for structuring your blog articles. Her fourth rule is what Hemingway said, Keep your Sentences Short. The other three are about making the post easier to read, web is different from paper.

Sarah Lewis also writes about What makes a good blog post?. I do not think all posts need to be laser-focused but I agree on linking to relevant information. For me that is added value, it gives more information if I want to go there.

Brian Clark at Copyblogger has a post about Three Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post. I think the final comment, Develop a Distinctive Voice, is important. Confidence in your own style might not be asy to find but

While you’ll always want to keep pushing your boundaries, a writer who is comfortable and confident in her own style naturally ends up an effective writer.

Joanna Young at Confident Writing writes about How to be a total reader magnet: pulling the readers that you want. Guess what, short sentences are mentioned here too.

At Blogger Lounge I found How to Write Killer Posts as well as Reduce Stress While Blogging. The later might be useful when writers block hits us.

Skellie posts over at DailyBlogTips about 10 Tips for Writing Bookmarkable Content.

Derek Beau writes about 12 Secrets Of Reader Friendly Blog Content. Establish Scannablity is one of them, a key point for me.

Michael Martin at Pro Blog Design is even bolder and lists 30 Ways to Improve Readability. The list is a mix of design tips at blog level and tips that are relevant to posts.

I round it off with Use These 10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post Ever from Daily Blog Tips.

Note: Photo by StaR_DusT.

Skelliewag is about creating content your site’s visitors will fall in love with. It’s about using simplicity to your advantage. It’s about being innovative, unique, and creating something worth talking about.

The tips, tricks and ideas you’ll find here are the result of insights gained over seven years creating content for the web. Bloggers, webmasters and web workers: this blog is written for you.

Skellie manages to create content that I fall in love with, plus that much of it is very useful in my own blogging and blogs.

Whether you are an attorney, manager, student or blogger, writing skills are essential for your success. Considering the rise of the information age, they are even more important, as people are surrounded by e-mails, wikis, social networks and so on.

It can be difficult to hone one’s writing skills within this fast paced environment. To solve this problem we decided to create Daily Writing Tips, a blog where you will find simple yet effective tips to improve your writing.

NorthxEast is a blog about blogging. Written by two up and comers with contributions from guest experts across the industry, the blog presents both sound blogging advice as well as penetrating insights. With a longer, more in-depth style, NxE aims to provide a series of weekly articles that no blogger can afford to miss.

One of the authors is Leo Babauta with ZenHabits – a blog that also is in my blogroll. The other author is Collis Ta’eed with Eden Creative Communities. He is new to me but his posts here are great.

• Text legibility
• Use Pullquotes
• Use Images
• Vary your text
• Small columns of text

I fully agree on the importance of avoiding small text size, I find that annoying and often leave sites that are a strain on the eyes. Pullquotes is something I have never used but I will have a look at that.

The final advice is to look to printed materials for inspiration:

Getting a reader involved with text has been a mainstay issue in print design for a very long time and magazines and newspapers in particular are very good at it. If you are looking for ideas about layout and how to present your material, they are an excellent reference for what to do to engage your reader, so get off your computer and pick up a paper tomorrow!

Why wait until tomorrow, get a paper today. I enjoy reading magazines but have actually not considered bringing visual ideas from there to my blogs.