Is there a specific piece of advice that changed your content writing game? Would love some writing tips!

Writing has never been a strong skill of mine. I never did well in writing classes in school. I don't particularly enjoy it either, but it's obviously necessary for the site I'm building. If I could I would probably try to outsource it, but I don't possess the funding for that at the moment.

Just curious if any of you that write your own content struggle with creating engaging unique informative articles for your sites. Was there any epiphany you had from a book, article, tip, or video that gave you an "Aha!" moment, and changed the way you write, ultimately leveling up your content writing game and boosting your rankings?

For me, keyword research, article outlines/briefs and analyzing the SERPs to determine search intent and gather ideas for headlines and the idea of silos (I think that would be the term to use), has helped tremendously, but I still feel like I'm missing something. Or, maybe I'm not fully taking advantage of the kw research and SERPs? Or, maybe it just really takes this much effort to build this...

Just looking to up my writing game. When I get stuck I'll play around with gpt3 for a bit to overcome the writers block and get something on page (though I usually just borrow the idea and rewrite it completely).

Just hungry for SEO writing tips to try out and some motivation to keep me going I suppose. This current project is the farthest I've come on any site by myself before (pushing 40 articles now that all interlink in some way).

Some of the content just feels thin and is difficult or super time consuming to add more to, and other times I feel I may have added too much fluff or possibly reexplained something or gone too in depth.

Most articles are probably around 1200-1800 words on average with some pushing 5000+ that I'm pretty sure I'll want to ultimately break sections out into supporting articles and interlink.

I'm trying to finish touching every node in my content plan before going back to fine tune anything though. I got a few dozen more pages to build before my core articles are "done". I haven't written any commercial pages(plan on adding affiliate stuff later, just want to focus on trying to rank first) yet as I want to focus on the informational pages first for now, as it's an actual hobby topic of mine and I want the information to be truly useful.

Apologies for any rambling, still sipping my coffee this gloomy Sunday. Just want to up my writing game as I'm new to this, and increase my productivity. Am curious if others had some breakthrough moment they want to share that's taken their content writing to a whole new level.

Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday!

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