Corvida Raven asked an interesting question about yesterday’s content creation questions:

Why so many questions and things to consider to just ask 1 question or inform others? Is all this really necessary?

My reply to her was that my post was a checklist that should be used before publishing content.

Since then, I’ve thought over both my post and my response to Corvida.  Corvida is an accomplished blogger and knows what she’s doing, so her question is both valid and worthy of a better answer.

The short answer is: it depends on what you want to achieve.

The longer answer:

There are many different styles, formats, methods, etc. for creating content as well as many different motivations for creating content.  The questions that were included in yesterday’s post were intended for creating high quality, readable, accessible content that would be shared by many readers.  It would have a clear message, tone, and have the best chances for influencing the reader.

You don’t need to be able to answer YES to all of those questions to create good content; yesterday’s post probably implied that you do.  I think that answering YES to even one question can help you to create good content.

HOWEVER, I do think you have the best chance for success if you can answer YES to all of those questions.

Does this make sense?

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