Mastering Flutter Written Content

Authored by Deven Joshi and Pooja Bhaumik
https://twitter.com/DevenJoshi7
https://twitter.com/pblead26

As Flutter matures and gains popularity, a number of experts, enthusiasts, and beginners write more and more content daily explaining everything from the smallest problems to large system-level overviews. However, these articles do not proportionally gain popularity. This talk explains how to manage several stages of content writing: everything from ideation to publishing and distribution. We talk about maximising readership, reach, and getting demographics right: what to do differently when targeting Indian vs any/international readers.

Transcript

1. Mastering Written Flutter Content Contributing to the Flutter community through the right set of articles Pooja Bhaumik GDE Flutter, SSE (Bounce) @pblead26 medium.com/@poojabhaumik Deven Joshi Senior Developer, BaitFinder @DevenJoshi7 medium.com/@dev.n
2. Rubber Duck Pooja Bhaumik GDE Flutter, SSE (Bounce) @pblead26 Writing articles as a way of learning something new and using the rubber duck technique as a way of writing better content.
3. Why Rubber Duck? Pooja Bhaumik GDE Flutter, SSE (Bounce) @pblead26 Writing articles as a way of learning something new and using the rubber duck technique as a way of writing better content.
4. Why Rubber Duck?
5. So what do you write about? Difficult concept in Flutter? No good content around XYZ topic? Found a great way of doing things?
6. So what do you write about? Difficult concept in Flutter? No good content around XYZ topic? Found a great way of doing things?
7. Writing Opportunities Difficult concept in Flutter? No good content around XYZ topic? Found a great way of doing things?
8. Moving from Android to Flutter Plenty of writing opportunities because Flutter was an unknown territory to most of us.
10. Difficult Concept: Layouts in Flutter
11. Difficult Concept: Layouts in Flutter Writing Opportunity
13. No good content + Difficult concept Writing Opportunity
15. Better way of doing things!
16. How to start writing ? No hows and buts, just start writing!
20. Just start writing!
21. Step One:
22. Research & collect info Finishing the article is faster when you know what you need to write
23. Demo Project + “Efficient” Steps + (or) Sub-topics +
24. And now even DartPad…..
25. And even CodePen…..
26. And even CodePen…..
29. Complete a draft article You don’t have to be a grammar nazi right from the beginning
30. Find your writing style Figure out your comfortable way of teaching. PS. Also it’s now time to be a grammar nazi
31. Or Pivot! Maybe writing itself, is not your comfortable way of teaching.
32. Done writing! Now? Now it’s time to find a home to your article and publish!
35. Dive Deep Deven Joshi Senior Developer, BaitFinder @DevenJoshi7 Exploring a concept to the most fundamental of levels
36. Stage I: Ideation
37. Rule: If you want to write your first article, forget about rules. • Article ideas can originate from various sources - for me they mostly come from problems and bugs I face in my work / experiments. • Don’t waste a day thinking about what you could write about. Try something new and watch fresh ideas appear in your mind. • Don’t worry about being original.
38. When in doubt, start a series
39. Stage II: Decide Type Of Article Announcement? Opinion? Reference? Experiment?
40. Rule: No article can be appealing to everyone. • Some articles are amazing one-time reads. Some articles help you solve something when you’re stuck. • Understand when your article might be read by the reader. • I tend towards making what I call read-and-refer articles which tend to be as exhaustive as possible exploring mostly unknown concepts.
41. Stage III: Choose Publication Platform
42. Rule: Not all platforms are created equal. • Platforms like Medium, LinkedIn, Dev.to or your own blog influence your structure, length, reach and even content. • LinkedIn articles tend to be on the shorter side, Medium articles are.. well.. Medium-sized and your own blog gives you more freedom. • SEO is a massive factor to consider. Even though Medium has drawbacks for sure, it offers SEO beyond other platforms.
43. Stage IV: Define Your Audience
44. Rule: If you know who will read what you write, it increases the chance of them liking it. • An article can be written for the general audience - but targeting it towards a specific audience helps reach quite a bit. • Specific targeting also helps you decide the technical level of the article: don’t use heavy terms in beginner articles, don’t over-explain in articles for professionals.
45. Stage V: Write!
46. Rule: Be yourself. You don’t need to imitate others when trying to express what YOU have to say. • If you have followed a procedure till this point, writing isn’t riddled with difficulties. • Make sure your language isn’t overly hard or so simplified that your point stops being concise. • If your article is code-heavy, show as less code as possible.
47. Stage VI: Distribute
48. Rule: The people you share your work with make or break your article. • Share your article with relevant groups over your own friend circle. • Make sure your article reaches people who are interested in Flutter so that algorithms can make the association. • Use social media well - spamming may ban you from groups.
49. Thank you Pooja Bhaumik GDE Flutter, SSE (Bounce) @pblead26 medium.com/@poojabhaumik Deven Joshi Senior Developer, BaitFinder @DevenJoshi7 medium.com/@dev.n See your articles in the Flutter community!