10 More Practical Ideas to Instantly Double Your Blog Post Count

28 Jan 2025 #writing

Too much of anything is bad. Except for writing.

Here are 10 more ideas to write or blog more—I say “10 more” because I’ve already shared 2 ideas to write more:

#1. Write shorter posts. Instead of writing a 1,000 or 2,000-word post, write multiple 200 or 500-word posts and make them a series.

#2. If you write a listicle (“10 tips to …” or “10 lessons I learned from …”), expand some items in separate posts. I used this technique when I wrote about Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth and my alternative to to-do lists.

#3. Write tangents in a separate post. When you’re writing and notice you’re going on a tangent, don’t delete it. Use it as a starting point for another post.

#4. Turn your “cuts” into posts. When you’re editing or proofreading, don’t throw away the sentences or paragraphs that didn’t make it into the final piece. They’re ideas for separate posts.

#5. Update old posts in new posts. If the subject of a post has changed significantly since the first time, write an updated version and add an “update” disclaimer to the original one.

#6. Take notes publicly after finishing a book or listening to a podcast episode. I do this all the time. Just look at my books tag. You could summarize it, react to it, or collect your favorite quotes and tell stories around them.

#7. Answer private questions in public. Every time I get a message on my contact page or a private text message with an interesting question, I expand my response into a post. Of course, editing out anything that can’t be shared in public. That’s how I preserve my keystrokes.

#8. Answer Reddit, Hacker News, or Quora questions on your own post. When you find a question that you can answer, write your own “answer” post. I did this when I wrote about my life-changing purchases since 2020. That was a question I found on Hacker News.

#9. Turn old comments into posts. Review the comments you’ve left on social media and forums and expand your comments into posts. Especially use those comments that got good engagement.

#10. Steal topics from others. This is a variation of #8. When you’re reading something and you realize you could have written that post, stop reading and write your own. Steal the topic, but not the content. I did this when I wrote about the lessons I learned from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

There’s no bad consequence of writing more. Volume always wins.