The Complete Guide to Formatting Your Stories on Medium
Because you want them to read it all — don’t you?
You already know you must publish your best possible work if you want people to read, right? The bottom line — your content has to be awesome!
But do you know that how you format that content is just as important to the reader?
I read a lot of stories on Medium every day. The thing that bothers me the most is that some writer’s stories may not ever get read because, formatting-wise, they are almost unreadable.
What can you do to make your stories usable to the average person, both on Medium, and the web?
I’m glad you asked.
1. Use Short, Concise Paragraphs
Many of the writers here on Medium come from a traditional publishing background. They are more used to writing manuscripts than they are to writing blog posts and articles.
When you are writing for Medium or the Web, you need to make sure your paragraphs are short and to the point. You want the reader to pass from point to point quickly, all the while moving down the page.
Making sure you don’t have long blocks of text will ensure that people will be able to follow along easily.
