Have you ever done written a guide before? Does this guide need updating? Well you're in luck, because I've created this guide to guide you through the steps to update your guide.

To guide you through my personal story, I wrote a Pyro guide a fair while ago and updates were introduced that made my guide out-dated in some areas. Furthermore, I was unsatisfied with my guide and didn't feel that it would properly guide people, so I promised to update the guide in order to properly guide the readers. However, this guide update was pushed back further and further until I stopped playing TF2 for a while, in spite of requests for the guide to be updated.

I hope you enjoy this guide! May it guide you to updating your guide in such a way that it guides people, who may then guide others.

So you are the author of a guide. Perhaps this guide is popular, or perhaps this guide is out-dated, or more likely, this guide is both popular and out-dated. Here's the first step to updating your guide.

MAKE A GUIDE PLAN
The most important aspect when writing a guide is to order and organise the guide into sections. This will act as a guide when it comes time to writing and updating your guide.

The guide plan should incorporate all of the planned guide elements, including future updates to the guide that may not be present in the next version. This way, you will have an accurate to-do list that you are able to check off as your guide is expanded upon.

An extract from my personal guide plan might be this:

PRIMARY WEAPONS
-Flamethrower
-- Stats
-- Pro 1
-- Pro 2
-- Pro.... X
-- Con 1
-- Con 2
-- Con.... X
-- Playstyle Guide
-- Summary
-Backburner
-- Stats
-- Pro 1
-- Pro 2
-- Pro.... X
-- Con 1
-- Con 2
-- Con.... X
-- Playstyle Guide
-- Summary

Obviously, this first step is a short guide on guiding yourself to finishing your guide, so I hope this helps!

So you've completed your guide plan. Now what? Well you dingus brain, it's obviously time to write the guide contents so you can guide people! But how on Earth do you complete the guide when it takes so long, and there is so much to write for the guide?

THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE
Writing 15,000+ words for my Pyro guide was not an easy task, and I genuinely do not think I would have been able to complete the guide, if not for this technique to guide me.

Essentially, you divide the elements of your guide into 25-minute blocks, and take a 5-minute break from the work between each block. Every third block of work should be followed by a 15-minute break. During the 25-minute block, work as much as possible with as little distractions as you can, and be sure to come as close to completion to the section of the guide as possible. After each block, ensure that you take 5 minutes away from your guide and do something that takes your mind off of writing the guide altogether.

This technique can be configured properly to help you update your guide and maintain focus throughout longer sessions, and can be adapted to your work or schooling life. For now though, try this technique on your guide!

Edit your guide to ensure that it will guide people optimally and has correct information. Refer to another guide if necessary.

Click save.

I hope you enjoyed this guide, and hopefully this guide will help you to write or update your own guide to guide others!

Thank you for reading this guide!

P.S. I wrote this as a joke, and as such, the word guide has been used 67 times total, accounting for approximately 10% of the words.