Many people consider starting a blog. Maybe because they have seen some other people have success, maybe because they have watched some Youtube videos about it (like the ones on my channel), or maybe they have just heard about it somewhere.

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Whatever the reason, many people consider starting a blog or trying to write for a living.

But often these same people let their own fear of not being a great writer (or a perfect one) stop them from starting at all. Let me share something with you…

YOU DON”T HAVE TO BE A PERFECT WRITER!

Not only do you not need to be a perfect writer to succeed as a blogger but you don’t even have to be a great writer. As long as you can string your thoughts together into a cohesive article then you can be a blogger and make money from doing it.

I don’t say that without anything to back it up either.

I’m far from the best writer in the world. Matter of fact, English, Spelling, and Writing were subjects that I hated with a passion when I was in school.

I remember staying up most of the night multiple times in high school working on a paper that was due the following day because I had procrastinated for so long. I just hated writing so I would put it off and put it off until the last possible moment.

There was even one time in college when I was writing the last bit of my paper as I was sitting in a class!

Being good at traditional writing is not a requirement for being a good blogger. And even if you are a great writer you should probably relax those rigid rules a bit so you can be a better blogger!

So if you aren’t a perfect blogger what should you be instead?

Don’t be perfect, be unique

Most of the time when people go to a blog they don’t just go to get information. If someone is looking for just bland, boring info they will go to Wikipedia. But your blog is different (or it should be).

There are many things in your life that are unique to you.

Maybe it’s your experiences in that niche. Maybe it’s the things that you have done in your life. Maybe it’s simply the mistakes that you have made.

I don’t know what it is but I promise you that there are many unique things about you that you can elaborate on and share in your blog posts.

A lot of my articles here involve me sharing some unique or interesting perspectives or things that I have learned in my almost 3 years of blogging. What have you learned over your lifetime that you can share with others too?

Giving a unique thought, perspective, or even test that you have done will help keep your readers engaged and keep them coming back to read more.

An example of this would be my Medium.com account. I created it as a test to see how much money I could actually make on Medium and if it would be worth my time. That’s a test that I can share on my blog or Youtube channel to help other people.

I’m also currently running a test with my Medium account. I am publishing an article every single day during the month of August to see if that increases my income. I’m then going to only publish once a week in September and see what that does to my income, reads, and views.

Figure out a way that you can run a test in your niche that will help provide the reader with something that is unique.

Don’t be perfect, share your mistakes

Not only do people feel like they have to be a perfect writers but often they feel like they have to write as if they are perfect and know everything. Let me tell you…

You don’t know everything and neither do I!

So stop trying to frame yourself as being perfect or knowing everything in your niche and instead share your mistakes and failures too.

In a few weeks, I’m going to be sharing my blogging income on my Youtube channel. I’m going to be talking about my successes and also the failures that I have made along the way.

When you are transparent and share your stories of failures or mistakes that you have made, it makes you relate more to your readers. Plus it will help them to avoid those same mistakes as well.

Sharing the stories of your mistakes doesn’t make you look like less of a person… it simply makes you look human. And ultimately we all love reading stories about success and failures so you will help your readers stay on your posts longer which is good for earnings and for SEO.

Don’t be perfect, nobody will read it

Who wants to read the perfect article with perfect grammar from a perfect writer? Virtually no one as they are called academic papers and they are as boring as all get out.

I feel like this is one of the main issues with the AI writing software that is currently on the market. They might help you get out content faster but the content that you put out will be absolutely perfect with no human element to it.

Those human elements like stories, anecdotes, etc. are what make those blog posts worthy of being read. When you share what you know or what you have learned and how you know or learned it, you let the reader know that you can be trusted.

AI software (and writers who are trying to be perfect) will end up putting out articles that are full of facts and figures. And while that might work in some niches, in many of them it won’t work well at all.

Say for example, that I am wanting to buy a new minivan. I head to Google and search for the best minivans. All I will find is a bunch of stats comparing them most of the time. But if instead, I search for “best minivan Reddit” it will pull up a bunch of Reddit posts of real people talking about their real experiences with their minivans.

That is the kind of blog content that you should strive to write.

Articles that are helpful by giving stats and information but also that share important things that you’ve learned in your niche, that you like or don’t like about a product, etc.

Don’t try to write a bunch of academic papers for blog posts. Instead, write imperfect articles that will actually help your readers in some way.

Final Thoughts

Ultimately, trying to be a perfect writer will often end up with your writing being boring and uninteresting. So don’t try to be perfect.

Instead, try to share what you know in a way that makes sense to you as the writer while also making sense to the reader.

If when writing a blog post you concentrate on making sure to provide as much helpful information, experiences, tests, etc. then your reader will stick around to read more and more of what you have written.

Matt R
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