Tutorial for Newbies — What makes a Quality Diary Game Post? Part 2

It's good to be back again with the second part of our tutorial. It feels good to teach and see the people you're teaching apply what you teach them. Newcomers are really improving not just in the diary game tutorials taught last week but also in grammar checks. Having a good foundation like this will help you grow when you're an old user.

Anyways, we've still got a lot to learn. This is just 10% of what we have to learn. Before the year runs out, we'll lay our hands on at least 70% if not 100%. In our last class, we discussed what a diary game post is, how to make the content rich, how to write the title and why it's necessary to be detailed. You can go through the post here.

Part 1 on how to write a good diary game post

Continuing from the linking question we drop, this post will serve as part 2. I didn't want to bore my readers with a lengthy post, that's why I had to segment the tutorial.

Picture-Title Agreement

Picture-Title agreement is an essential part of a diary game, in fact, one of the main aspect of writing a quality diary game post. What does this mean? The first picture you used in your diary game post must match your title perfectly. If it doesn't, you're obviously deceiving your readers or making them look like a fool. I've read a few diary game posts and sad times say, what they say in their title isn't what I read.

In fact, it was the title that drew me to the post, but sad to say, I got disappointed when they said something different from what is written as their title. Most users today have violated this rule especially the newcomers. Most diary game posts have the selfie or faces of users as their first impression picture. This isn't bad but it doesn't always make your diary game post look quality.

Why? It doesn't give first impression. I know you may be beautiful or handsome but your face pictures doesn't make your post attractive. We want to see pictures of those activities carried out, if possible, a portrait of you doing those activities because you're not telling us about yourself but your day.

It's just like your Introductory post where you're required to use a portrait or face picture to introduce yourself. Diary game isn't an introductory post. We know you already. Using a picture of you in the background isn't bad, but those unnecessary selfies and face pictures is what makes a diary game post lack quality.

Back to our Picture-Title agreement. This is when the first picture doesn't match the title. For example my title is;

The Diary Game || 2-6-23 || Attending to business clients in my workplace and having family time

But your first picture is a selfie of you on a plain background, it doesn't match your title because your readers can't tell for sure that you went to your workplace. If possible, we need to see pictures of your workplace, pictures of you doing a work or maybe an interview, pictures of you inside the building or even with your family.

You may say, these pictures are in the post. Yes, agreed, but it's not sampled as the first picture. The first picture matters in every post because it creates first impression.

From the pictures below, can you which first picture will attract you the most?

Definitely! The first screenshot will attract you the most because of the first picture used in the post. The second won't because it's just a selfie, more like an Introduction post.

The title in this screenshot matches the first picture. We can see the heavy workloads carried out by the user. If she inserted a selfie or face picture as her first picture, do you think the message would have been passed without opening the post?	✅ It agrees with the title
If you look at the title in this screenshot, the user said; "A day of sympathy and heavy workload" . The first picture may not have been the problem but the title is. Why? The first picture here shows a selfie of him and from discoveries, it's seen that this is how the user keeps his face when he's both happy or sad. So we can't tell if he's sympathetic from this first picture	❌ It doesn't agree with the title

If this user had used a first picture like this, 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 won't it explain the title and give readers an impression?

	A Day of Sympathy and Heavy Workloads
The sympathy is shown here	✅

	It doesn't agree because we can't see the user in his workplace. No evidence to justify the title. Just a selfie ❌❌
	It doesn't agree with the title because we haven't seen the user go to work or in his workplace. All we see is a plate of food ❌❌

So your first picture must match with your title. Very essential to avoid misleading your readers. You need to give them first Impression and attract them to your post.

Choosing your first picture

Choice of first picture is very essential in creating first impression. Don't just put any picture because it starts your day. For example, the first writeups that comes is when you woke up and had your breakfast. It's not wise to insert the food picture and leave it there. Why? It would automatically appear as your first picture. This is what I do 👇🏽👇🏽

• I check my pictures, all of them
• I ask myself, which one will fit my title and attract curators and readers to my post?
• I then select the best to use even though this picture comes in the middle of my day. I'll use it to create my first impression.
• I'll then insert the picture before starting my writeups. For example 👇🏽👇🏽

I chose my best picture that's unique and matches my title even though the activity on the picture came later during the day.	This is the output after Inserting it first.

I would have used the following pictures but it wouldn't have rhyme with my title because it's just a selfie of me in places that doesn't match where I described in my title. There's no crypto event in the background or traditional marriage display. That's why my choice was the best.

Post Link

	This won't fit my title. So I'll have to change my title if this is the only picture I have

If you don't have a particular picture to use, then give us a title that rhymes with the picture you have. Don't use gold and tell us about crypto

• Don't use blurry pictures. It doesn't make your post a quality one. Clean your camera lens. It won't be so bad.

• WhatsApp pictures i.e pictures sent by someone to you on WhatsApp, aren't allowed in a diary game post. This is used to check originality. Let the person send it through xender or Bluetooth if possible.

• Use a minimum of 2 pictures in your diary game post

• Using of a collage to include pictures of all activities done isn't bad

• Using screenshot pictures in your diary game post doesn't make it original. At some point, you'll be questioned.

• Don't cross-post your diary game posts for any reason

• Don't use pictures of Thursday to tell us about Sunday. Your pictures must rhyme with your day. Your diary game should include pictures taken that day and not last year. This includes food pictures

• Don't reuse pictures in a diary game post. It's very bad. Don't think we can't check 😁.....

• A good diary game post picture should be landscape and not in portrait. If you can't take pictures in landscape, you can crop the picture so it won't be excessively long.

Landscape ✅✅	Portrait ❌❌❌

If you can't take landscape pictures, do well to crop your photos before Inserting then. E.g

Before Cropping	After Cropping

Evaluate the body of the post

Ensure everything is set in your diary game before posting. Thd body of your content matters. Always include parts where readers can benefit from your post. You can include your challenges, observations, lessons, how you plan your day and any other thing. Just make sure your reader learns something from your lifestyle and your day. Ensure the following is kept in check.

Title	The Diary Game — Date — Sub-title or sub-title + Date if you don't want to make the diary game obvious	✅
Picture-Title agreement	First Picture must match with your title	✅
First picture	Don't use selfies or face pictures	✅
Ensure the body of your post is written well	✅

Body of Content

Don't start your post with a greeting ❌	Don't make your diary game like a tutorial. E.g I can, I saw, I conquered ❌
Always Proofread or use grammar checkers to correct your grammar ✅	Ensure your post include things readers can benefit from ✅
Your post should be detailed with a minimum of at least 400 words ✅	Use pictures to convey ideas ✅

Check your tags

Tags are very essential in creating in categorising your type of content. Use #thediarygame #lifestyle or #betterlife when sharing your diary game post and they should appear as the first tag. Don't place it anywhere because you have tags that gives you votes. It must always be the first tag to post, then other tags can come after. It's just like talking about #crypto but your first tag is #agriculture #fyp and the likes. It doesn't make sense. So let's be guided.

If you have questions, don't fail to ask in the comment section. Try these tips out for one month and thank me later

Watch this video for a summary of all i said