ProBlogger: The Power of “TK” in Content Writing (and How it Can Help You)

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The Power of “TK” in Content Writing (and How it Can Help You) Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:28 AM PDT Sometimes blogging is just slooooww… If you’ve ever been struggling (painfully) to write a couple of paragraphs that would make sense, only to find yourself with 400 words after two hours of effort then you know what I mean. … There can be many reasons why this is possibly your reality at the moment. Maybe it’s just not your day. Maybe you have some kind of a writer’s block. But maybe you’re just slowing yourself down by getting hung up on a missing word for minutes at a time. Yep, maybe that’s the case … But the problem here is that it’s against human nature to leave blank spaces or to keep writing when there’s clearly a word or phrase missing. We – humans – just don’t like such [_ gaps _]! This is where the concept of “TK” comes into play. It’s the oldest trick in the book that all of our journalist friends have known for ages (shush!). In short, TK stands for “to come.” … Here’s how to use it : Whenever you have a word missing (any word, verb, noun, specific name) … … put “TK” in its place and keep writing like nothing ever happened … … With some practice, this will allow you to continue going forward without breaking your flow. … Some examples: (1) “There are tons of people who TK at blogging because they took too much TK upon themselves.” (2) “You can get such functionality with a plugin like TK.” (3) “It performs a number of checks against things like TK, TK, and a lot of other stuff.” Then, once you’re done writing, you can go back to every instance of TK and replace it with the actual word or phrase. … “But wait a minute, ‘to come’ is TC!” You say. Right, but the combination of the letters “T” and “K” is much more practical as it almost doesn’t occur in the English language naturally. … Therefore, when you’re going through your piece during the editing phase, searching for every TK won’t get you any false positives. How about you? Do you TK much? Karol K. (@carlosinho) is a freelance writer, published author, founder of NewInternetOrder.com and a blogger at Bidsketch.com (delivering some cool freelance blogging and writing tools, advice and resources just like what you’re reading now). Whenever he’s not working, Karol likes to spend time training Capoeira and enjoying life. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger The Power of “TK” in Content Writing (and How it Can Help You)

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How to Never Publish a Post Before It’s Ready on WordPress - DailyBlogTips

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How to Never Publish a Post Before It’s Ready on WordPress Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:15 PM PDT Picture this: you are working on a really long post that you think your readers will love. The post will take a lot of work to get completed, so you decide to break the task in small parts, writing a bit every day. One day you are working late at a night, and after adding some new paragraphs and images to the post you decide to save it, but instead of hitting the “Save Draft” button you mistakenly hit the “Publish” one. Bam! The post is not ready, it’s not correctly formatted and it’s not even complete, but it goes live anyway. Unless you are fast to think and act there is a chance that the post will be pushed to your RSS feed, and if you are unlucky Google might also be crawling your site exactly at that moment, indexing your half-ready post. In other words, a disaster. I have been there, and it’s not a good feeling. Luckily there is a very simple solution for this on WordPress: whenever you start working on a long post that might take a while to complete, schedule it to some day next year, and then publish it. That way there will be no risk of going live with the post, and once you are ready to publish it you’ll just need to re-adjust the date to the current day. Easy huh? Wanna learn how to make more money with your website? Check the Online Profits training program!

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