Hello,
Here are some Tips For Article Writing.
1. Pick your day(s) to write.
I write about four articles a week for my business ventures and one a week for my hobby blog. If you were writing anywhere from 8-25 articles per month, how would it feel if you got your writing done in a couple of days. Pick days when you can write uninterrupted for 4-5 hours.
2. Write offline–the idea is to give your full concentration to your writing. Writing offline will keep you away from email, Twitter, IMs and the like.
3. Pre-determine your article topics.
Just sit down before your writing session (or at the beginning of the month, or whenever), and start brainstorming article topics. Choose topics from that list for your articles. This saves bunches of time, since one of the hardest things is coming up with ideas of what to write about. Google researching topics, helps me a lot.
4. Come up with an informal outline before you really start writing–this makes things progress faster.
5. Keep snacks handy.
We are all capable of sitting for 4-5 hours and working on a project, but I know that if we start to get hungry, we have a need to eat. And we get up to go to the kitchen to get something to eat, then it may be a while before we get back to our desk. The solution in staying focused on the task at hand, is to keep snacks within reach–tea/coffee on the desk, pretzels, anything that we can quickly pick up and eat/drink.
6. Set word count limits/goals.
This is so important. Most article directories that are worth using, require a minimum of 250 to 450 word-count article. If you don’t have a limit on how long your article will be, you can write and write and write and take up all 5 hours just on one article! For most of us it is easy to write 300-500 word articles once we get a little practice with goal setting,
Here are some benefits of this “Batch” writing:
*Writing for an extended period of time gives you the chance to get on a roll–one article spawn another article idea. Realize that one idea can be too big to cover in just one article and you can neatly transition into your next article continuing the thoughts of the previous one. Writing “on a roll” this way can help give your articles a sense of cohesion–one builds on the next, rather than just being a series of one-offs.
*You will be working more efficiently if you “batch process” things.
You aren’t constantly being pulled away to do other things, so you get whatever activity you’re working on done more quickly. This batching method is really geared toward completion of tasks.
*It is just plain satisfying to crank out several articles in a day. What a feeling of accomplishment!
*You can relax more.
When you know you will be writing 4 or so articles on your designated day, it frees you to relax and complete some fun ventures with family or friends.
Larry, Resident Article Expert
