This article on the 10 (no, 11… yes, 11) tips for aspiring authors is not composed from the catbird seat point of view of the article publisher or information manager. It is rather by and from the point of view of an writer who thinks the early misgivings. It is written especially for the starting article writer. I have written and presented hundreds of writings for publication to thousands of article hosts and information managers and still finds article writing my enemy.
1. Needs vs Wants:
Writings and Blogs are unavoidable in today’s scheme of search engine indexing. Not what the newbie wants to hear. Just remember what the Holy Book says, “there has nothing over taken you that is not common to man”. This is absolutely right! All of us detest article and blog writing at times, and some of us dread the journey to pen and paper (or keyboard as the case may be) all the time. Many a webmaster would call them “a necessary evil” as they are not broadly speaking anyone’s best liked house keeping jobs.
2. Just Start, It Gets Better:
First it is sometimes tough to get an idea or theme and to get started. We know writers who actually get sick thinking about the process. Lighten up. There are a lot to write about, name it: alternative medicine, cancer diseases, true religion, life insurance, playing online poker, cheap insurance. Others may think of even more unusual topics such as penis enlargement and cheap viagra. Once an writer has a starting point and gets passed the first thoughts, article and blog writing usually goes fairly smoothly.
The key thing is that you get moving. Pick a theme you know something about and just start. You will be enjoyably surprised at just how easily ideas flow. Don’t assume everyone knows what you know. Apparently they do not. Will Rogers once uttered, “all men are ignorant, just on different subjects”. And this is the truth!
3. Good vs Perfection:
Your old English writing teacher is not looking over your shoulder. Your composition need not to be perfect. It doesn’t mean it should not get a point or to say that it does not have to be correct. It does or at least it should be. But, our goal is not perfection and is, in fact, rarely possible. Too much detail and you run the risk of losing your reader on various levels. Too long and
most readers simply don’t have the time or interest to wade through the material irrespective of how good it is.
4. Length of Blog vs Article Length:
Most web publishers require a minimum of six hundred (600) words per article – some will let you slide with four hundred (400) words. Blogs can be much smaller. Blogs can and maybe should support appropriate photos and embedded links.
Don’t over do it though. Too gaudy or too slow to load and you have wasted your time, ticked off a potential reader, and probably upset a server who can ban you entirely from their service. compositions, but then, typically cannot carry these extra touches according to the essentials of most article publishers.
5. Format:
Save your article in ASCII format. There are many tools that does this thing. A search the web for “free ASCII editor” will provide one with a multitude of free options. WordPress is a standard pick. If all fails Notepad is enough for you to use.
6. Spelling and Grammar:
Once you have your article or blog run it through a good spell checker and a good grammar checker. Microsoft Word has a built-in tool for this. Just don’t use the MS Word copy for writing of your article. Rather use its corrections to make any unavoidable rectifications to your plain text copy. The MS Word copy will work for blogs although other editors are preferred.
Just like the days when you were pushed by teachers, you will find article and blog authoring skills become better with time and practice.
7. Publish and Announce:
Once your article is ready you may want to utilize some software to publish and announce it. First do a search for Blog directories and select those which best suit your needs. Register in one or more and publish your blog there. Then search for blog and RSS announcers and use them to get your blog noticed.
Now that you have that out of the way find an article wizard that will post your compositions to free web publishers. You can post them one at a time by hand if you are really bored and have absolutely nothing else in life to do. Using an automatic poster you can publish to hundreds of hosts in an hour or so. The only way to go.
8. Forbearance:
Now, have some patience. Here is where you lose control. Many of the men and women who host compositions are timely and your compositions will be reviewed in a span of twenty-four (24) to forty-eight (48) hours. Others may take days and weeks therefore never date an article – a sure way to get rejected.
9. Rejection – “sorry your article has been declined”:
Be prepared for most hosts to reject your writings. Do not be personal about this. It usually has little to do with you or your article.
Some databases routinely reject writings for spelling errors when there are none or where there is more than way to spell a word. And, just as in any other endeavor some servers are simply too lazy and get so far behind, the easiest and quickest thing to do (and perhaps the only alternative) is to reject the whole article. You will learn who these are over time.
Then there are those who run your writings through the sausage grinder and if they find certain words, regardless of how they are used, your article are instantly junked. These are those who can’t even publish the Holy Bible because it contains words that offend them or their readers. These are people who are narrow-minded and doesn’t deserve a place in article writing.
Remember the rule: In every rule, there is an exemption.
10. Always believe, and keep cranking out articles:
Since most writers, particularly newbies, prepare only one copy of an article against the advice of most seasoned authors it is important that the newbie keep his chin up – keep the faith. That will be easier as more and more of your compositions are accepted and published taking visitors to your website while making those all essential links to your sites.
It is not necessary that every publisher to accept everything submitted to them. After one or two directories publish your article on any given subject, the search engines tend to penalize additional postings of the same article. This is close to spamming and while it could help someone find you, it probably won’t. It is not necessarily, the more the merrier. The additional listings will not increment your page rankings or links reported by the search engines. It is more significant to get published by directories with the highest Google page rank possible.
Now, one BONUS TIP for you: Together with “the rejection slip” will usually come a suggestion on how to “fix” your article and a asking that you submit it again. Do not blow your time. While trying comply with one database manager’s request you could have composed a new one from which you get much more punch. There will be enough web publishers will pick your article up so move on and save yourself some time and heartburn.
Each person has an idea or thought at least once a day usually at the most ill-timed time. How many of these ideas have been lost because you waited before you write? Don’t procrastinate! Go! Capture that thought before it is gone forever.
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