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Six Steps To Writing Articles That Your Readers Will Love

July 2nd, 2010

A lot of people, including seasoned writers and marketers dread the idea of having to write another article.
There are some who feel like it seems to be too much work and it all goes to waste when no one reads their article anyhow. To a few people, reading articles seem like work too, particularly if the article is boring and very unstimulating. Well, articles are conjectured to be read, that’s their intent, to bestow your knowledge, message and information. If it is not read by anybody, then it is a waste of time and energy.

But all the same, articles have to be written to be read. It’s just a matter of making them effective. Writing a good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and arduous. There are some tips needed to be reminded of, and some guidelines to follow. Once you get the hang of it, writing articles should be fun, as well as advantageous for you and your website.

Of course, the articles you write must be about a subject you know something about, that’s why if you own a site, you probably have some knowledge about the theme of your site. When you write about it, you won’t have too hard a time because you already know what the subject is and what it’s about. It’s just a matter of making your articles creative, informative and interesting.

To make sure that your articles get read and enjoyed, here are six really useful tips. These tips will make your articles readable, informative and interesting.

1) Apply brief paragraphs. When the paragraph are really long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader. Just looking at a long paragraph can get quite confusing and makes it hard work to read it. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are favorable to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!

2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As you are emphasizing each applicable point, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, your readers will know that this is where the tips begin. Format you bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of boring square paragraphs. It pays to add a little bit of flair and originality to your articles body.

3) Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in the page. Doing this will break each point into sections. It will also be easy for the reader to move on from one point to another; the transition will be smooth, easy and ‘natural.’This way, you will never lose your readers attention as well as the point and direction of your article.

4) Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header. If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re already midway there in getting a person to read your article. Use affirmations and questions that utilize keywords that people are looking for. Supply titles or headers that describe your articles content, but should also be short and compact.

Use titles like, “Tips on making her want you more”, or “How to make her swoon and blush” .You could also use titles that can command people, for example, “Make her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles reach out to a persons’ emotions and makes them interested. Once you have the readers emotional attention, you are guaranteed that person will read your article.

5) Keep them interested in your article from the very first word, to the last. From your opening paragraph, use real life situations that can be adopted by the reader. Use good descriptions and metaphors to drive home your point, just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.

6) Utilize figures when needed and not just ordinary and insipid statements. Using specific facts and figures can heighten your article because it makes it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it should be light and easy in them and flow. Like a friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager student.

7)Don’t use drawn-out, technical or unusual words. Many authors assume that their readers already know about the subject. These authors use technical words and slang that are hard for the reader to understand and follow. So try to keep it as non-technical as you can. After all, you want them to visit your website for a more in depth understanding of what you are writing about.

8)Pay close attention to your spelling and grammar. If your article is littered with spelling mistakes, and bad use of grammar, then that will weaken your claim to be knowledgeable about the subject you are writing about, and may get your article rejected. If you want to give the appearance of being an authority on your subject, always run a spell check before submitting your article.

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If I Can Just Get My First Story Published I Will Have Success

April 20th, 2010

Like most imaginative professions the question of a characterised success in writing is not easy to boil down into one definitive answer.

Just as there are a multitude of writing styles, so too are there many examples of writing success.

Examples

1. “If I can just complete my first story, I will have success.” 2. “If I can just act upon the courage to put forward this to a publisher, I will have success.” 3. “If I can really receive a check in the mail for a magazine article, I will have success.” 4. “If I can just publish my first book, I will have success.” 5. “If I can just have my book published by a major publisher, I will have success.” 6. “If I can just get my book in the bestseller listing, I will have success.” 7. “If I can just keep up with all the writing work I have been empowered to do, I will have success.” 8. “If I can only be esteemed in the same way as other literary heavyweights, I will have success.”

“The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.” Lin Yu-t’ang

There is a difference between contentment and self-complacency. In the first case, we learn to be happy in the conditions we find ourselves in. In the second case, you merely settle for where you are without an interest in doing something more.

“A man will never be content with what he wants until he is content with what he has.” - Bill Gothard

As writers we should always reach for our best. It is a good idea to set a small attainable goal for the short term with perhaps a one and six year plan in place for where we would like to be. This goal can be readjusted annually.

The trouble many writers have is they set their goals so high they may not be able to achieve them, or they make the goal sacrosanct they miss out on life in pursuit of the goal. Should they actually reach the goal, the effect of reaching the peak often serves as a pin to pop an inflated balloon. For some, the ultimate goal they have chosen leaves them feeling empty because they never understood the need for contentment. Once the ‘ultimate goal’ is realized the author has nothing more to look forward to and they struggle through issues related to their overall motive.

By learning the fine art of contentment while refusing to be complacent will serve you well as you grapple with issues of personal writing success.

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My Instant Article Wizard Review

March 18th, 2010

The internet has not just become a place where people from distant places can connect but it is also a marketplace for goods and services.

However, for you to be prosperous in your online business, you have to generate traffic for your site. What I mean by this is that you must get people to frequent your website.

The only way to generate serious traffic to your site is by posting informative articles. Let’s look at it this way: people go to the internet to find information, therefore, you have to provide sensible articles which they will want to read for them to go to your site.

The only problem with this is the part where you have to write the articles.

Before you can come up with an article that people will actually want to read, you need to do some research first. This can eat up your entire time.

And then there is the writing process itself. If you aren’t good in written communication, this can be a big problem for you.

Some internet marketers have tried to get rid of all those by employing an article writing program. But, more often than now, these programs create articles that are bordering on ridiculous and absurd.

What you find in these articles are usually just keywords strung together producing grammatically incorrect articles.

The good thing is that not all programs are like that. Instant article wizard is among those. It can help you with the research as well as the article writing so that you do not have to waste so much time.

As a user, you only need to provide the keywords and the program will automatically scan the internet for related texts on the topic. After which you will be able to use the results to write an entire article.

What’s great about generating traffic through articles is that you can expect the traffic to continually increase through the years depending on the relevance of the article. This is why internet marketers submit articles to article directories and post them in blogs everyday.

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