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Don’t Hit Publish Until You’ve Done These Three Things
No excuses. You’ll be ready to go in 10 minutes or less.
If you’re a writer, you know this feeling: You spend hours writing something that you believe is spectacular and should go viral. I’m done! you say to yourself. Submit!
Sometimes, you truly believe it’s flawless. Other times, you know it’s not, but you don’t have the time, patience, or resources to polish it up, so you release it into the world and hope for the best.
Everyone makes the occasional typo. It happens. That said, there are certain grammatical and syntactical felonies that are easy to avoid if you take just ten minutes to do these three things before you hit “publish”.
1. Properly format your title and subtitle (estimated time: 1 minute).
You can use CapitalizeMyTitle to do this. The standard is to use title case for your title and sentence case for your subtitle. It’s alright to deviate from this, of course, but deviate purposefully.
YES: This is My Title (title case — this is the standard)
YES: This Is My Title (first letter)
YES: This is my title (sentence case)
MAYBE: this is my title (fine, if it’s on purpose)
NO: This is my Title (don’t do this)
NO: This Is my Title…
