Just bear with me on this one, OK? Content is often the key element for many online business owners, that we know. And it’s not hard to see why because it’s, well … difficult (to say the least) to attract any traffic if you don’t have anything interesting on your site … perhaps even impossible. This makes writing (as an activity) an essential part of every online entrepreneur’s existence.

For quite some time now I’ve been mentioning one specific writing/blogging advice I got from somewhere, can’t remember where, unfortunately. Anyway, the advice is to write two separate drafts of one post.

Here’s how it works. You write the first draft, from top to bottom, and then immediately afterwards you start over – you write the second draft without looking at the first one. You simply try to come up with the complete post for the second time.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you make mistakes too… We all do. Being able to put some words together in a smooth sequence of sentences is not enough to produce a decent blog post.

“Easy reading is damn hard writing” – I guess Nathaniel Hawthorne was right after all…

Now let’s set some things straight. I’m no guru when it comes to writing. I’m making a ton of mistakes myself. Not to mention some language errors because English is not my primary language (greetings from Poland). But there is a small set of things that I’ve figured out, more or less. And I’m writing this post to tell you what those things are.

So let’s start. Here are the mistakes: