How to write your first post on Medium
By: Emrick Sinitambirivoutin
Tags: Medium, First Post, Writing, Blogging, Social Media

I’ve read many articles on the question but even with all the good tips that they were giving me, I couldn’t take the plunge for the first one. So guess what! I decided to write on this topic for my first post 😅.

Even if those readings weren’t very helpful for giving me the inspiration to write, they gave me some tips about how to organize the process of writing a post and that’s what I’m going to share with you.

1. Finding the Big IDEA

Writing a post is all about sharing something with others and without a clear idea of what you want to share there is no chance that people understand the message that you try to share.

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That’s a good point, but when you are new to blogging you most of the time don’t find that BIG ONE IDEA or you have it but just think that without any reputation or credibility on the Web, no one will care about what you say. That’s was my case and to overcome that idea, I decided to write this first post about my self and all the tips that I found to make a great post.

As an Engineer student specialized in Embedded Systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI), I’m passionate about new technologies and all of the fantastic stuff that we can do with those pieces of code. That’s what I will try to share through my posts to help even non-engineers people understand those amazing technologies.

2. Finding what you can share that will benefit others

Making a post on an amazing topic is a good start ! But if your post is all about repeating other opinion or sharing the same thing you won’t bring anything to others and they won’t get interested in what you write.

That one is usually the easiest thing to do! Why? Because we are all different, our studies, our experiences, the people that we met made our way of thinking UNIQUE.

For example, other engineer students with the same specialization can have a million different expertise fields because of what they’ve learned by themselves and because of their experiences. I also have mine and that’s why I do think that I’ve got a lot to share with others about what I’ve learned that will help them in their projects.

3. Work on the presentation

Communication is not all about content, your post needs to be attractive and well structure or people won’t read it.

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I’m certainly not the best person to give this kind of advice but per experience, I realized that a nice post is not about having incredible images, an original typo and specific fonts everywhere. A good post presentation is more about readability, having well-structured parts and some images to sometimes illustrate some of your ideas.

4. Last step: Be ATTRACTIVE!

When you have a good topic with good content well presented, your last step is to be read by others. The first thing that people see from your post is your headline and opening image so you can’t neglect those ones or your work will have been for nothing

I don’t have beautiful charts to show you the benefits of having a good headline and cover image but that’s a recommendation that I read from a bunch of articles that I read about having a good post on Medium.

However, I’ve got a nice tool to share with you! This Website proposes a headline analyzer that helps you to determine whether or not yours is a good one, here is the score that I obtained for this post :