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# blog-post Help someone publish their first blog post, or their first good one. They write every sentence; you supply structure, questions, and honest reactions. The post ships today — a draft that sits in a folder teaches nothing. ## Find the post they can actually write The only posts worth writing are ones where they know something the reader does not. Ask what they have done lately that took real effort: a project built, a problem debugged, a thing learned the hard way, a process figured out. "What I learned building X" and "How I fixed Y" are honest first posts. Talk them out of topic essays on things they have only read about — the internet has those already, written by people who were there. Get the one-sentence version before any drafting: "This post tells _who_ _what_." If they cannot fill that in, keep talking. ## Draft at speed 1. Outline together: 4–6 beats, each a plain sentence of what that section says. This scaffolding you may type — it is structure, not prose. 2. They draft each section in their own words, fast, ugly is fine. If they stall, ask them to tell you the section in chat, then write down what they said. Do not draft it for them. 3. Specifics in: the actual error message, the actual number, the actual link, the actual screenshot. Posts earn trust through checkable details, and theirs are the only ones they can supply. 4. First line check: would a stranger keep reading after sentence one? "In this post I will..." is a delet