Article Writing

It is difficult for most aspiring novelists to realize that their words are not written in stone. Re-writing hones in on the main thrust of the story. It crystallizes character, defines the story goal, brings the setting into reality and makes the story come alive on the pages of a book.

Fiction writing becomes more difficult as more is learned about it. With skill comes awareness. The joy you found when your story first made its presence known in your consciousness — and when you began writing it — dissipates as you re-write. The second, third, fourth and perhaps the fifth draft of your book evokes not only resentment that you must work so hard to produce a saleable novel, but discouragement, frustration, and yes, even boredom. However, the professional author endures the agony, realizing that each re-write clarifies the story and makes it saleable. Read Full Article >>

Pat Lewis is a veteran bookseller. She and her husband own the Entrepreneurs Business Bookstore in Sacramento, California, and she also owned and managed the Booktrader for over fifteen years. Pat continues to be on the lookout for those special research books that authors and aspiring authors need.

Authors and booksellers — here’s your chance to ask an expert for her advice. Between her years in the business and her contacts, we’re confident that you’ll get an answer!

WHAT DO YOUR SIGNS TELL PEOPLE?

Go outside and look carefully at your signs and see what they are telling people.

Example:

BOOKTRADER

What does this tell you? What is Booktrader? Many people do not recognize from this that you are a bookstore. Consider changing your overhead signs to say something more to the point. Read Full Article >>

Describing thoroughly the nature of an activity as writing an article in general is going to take us a long way because the phrase writing an article in general sense of the term covers a wide scope of types of writing, language usage and many more things which distinguish one kind of article writing from another.

Before we start elaborating on the kinds of articles, we will first define the term. What is an article in the most general sense of the term? The answer is simpler than the question; an article is textual body written with the purpose of giving information to the reader.

Now when we speak about writing an article in general, there is an array of differences between one kind of article and another. There are also various types of articles distinguished according to these differences.

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In case you are a person whose main salary is not enough to cover all expenses required for successful functionality of your household and you have the gift for writing, you can easily make your living better by having a second job in the comfort of your home. It will take only a couple of hours of your precious time and it will help you meet the ends for the month that follows and afford a small luxury, why not. Many people from the United States earn their dollars by two jobs and there is no better second job than this one. You have an article to send and meet the deadline, you are in the comfort of your home, and therefore you do not have to bother to look presentable; as long as you do your job well, your employer would not mind.

Now, many of you surely wonder how to earn money by writing articles online. If you do a little research on the web, you will find that there are many websites seeking for the help of bright and gifted writers as you are to enrich the content of their database.

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If your goal in life is to inform and entertain the readers of a famous magazine, you might have made the right decision on where to publish your works. There are many benefits of writing articles for a magazine, the main of which is that you get a loyal audience since because of the convenience, many people pay one-year subscription to a magazine. Therefore, writing articles for a magazine will make the audience recognize your works and if you are really good in your job, maybe your column will be the most popular of the entire magazine content and many people would buy it for that article you have written with the greatest attention.

Now, we did not say that getting to write articles for a magazine is easy, it is not even near to easy. The stairway is big, however, we will help you by pointing the crucial steps in writing a magazine article.

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One good thing about the academic writing is that if you have enough information on the subject and you have a slight gift for writing, you will make the academic article just the way the task requires from you. Another thing why you should not encounter difficulties in preparing this article is that you give a totally objective outlook on the topic you are given; in other words you do not have to bother putting your outlook on the subject but you will only have to list the main facts and elaborate on them further in the body of your article.

However, it takes much resourcefulness and knowledge on the subject you are going to write about if you want your academic article to be written the most preferable way. We will provide a simple guideline on how to successfully write your academic article. These are just some main points which will guide you in the right direction.

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On top of the fact that you are having a pile of assignments which deadlines are looming, you have to write an article as soon as possible. For an article of 400 words you will need 45 minutes to an hour at least, including the time for research and editing. Now the question is how to find the time to write that article.

One very popular technique is free writing which is also called stream of consciousness technique. You get the title and you write continuously without a pause everything that comes up on your mind on the subject for 15 minutes.

Then, you do the editing if what you have written and the task is completed. However, not everyone can speed up their writing by this activity. What if we tell you that there is a new way out and that a 400-word article can be completed in 20 minutes. You want to know how? Read further.

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Article writing prompts are single words or phrases which are used to inspire the writer through the process of writing. Today, there is a huge gallery of writing prompts you just have to choose one and get inspired to move on with your own words. Now, why would someone bother creating the huge gallery of writing prompts? Below are the main functions of prompts and the situations when they could be used.

Using prompts is perfect when you want to do something more than practice your writing strategy. Using prompts will freshen up and beautify your writing and your article will catch the eyes of many curious readers. If you are a person fed up with the same old way of beginning an article, the prompts will definitely make your article stick out from the pile.

Now if you have never used writing prompts when preparing your article, we will help you get used to them easily and make them become a significant part of all of your writing tasks.

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Freelance article writing for magazines is said to be the most prestigious and the most profitable job position a writer can have. Every journalist who works as a freelance writer for a prestigious magazine has the benefit of getting the highest rewards for their efforts than their colleagues working for every other kind of writing. However, the path to getting all these advantages is neither easy nor a short one.

A writer obtaining all these privileges as mentioned above has to possess exceptional qualities in the field of journalism, and by this we mean that a successful freelance magazine writer has to possess these qualities at least: a freelance magazine writer has to possess a wide scope of interest and knowledge in many topics and has to be very skillful and efficient in doing the research on the subject he/she is going to write about.

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If you want your article to work, you will have to make it look intriguing and interesting from the very beginning. Writing good introductions to your articles is the thing that will get you a big reading audience and fans that admire your work.

Every teacher that has the job of evaluating writing assignments has his/her secret in successfully grading 180 texts in two weeks all by themselves. How can they possibly do that? They say that from the first five sentences, they determine whether the text (an essay, article or any other kind of writing, irrespectively) is good enough to pass or not. Yes, your editor uses the same strategy. When they are lucky, the editors find the time to thoroughly revise your article, however, if they see from the first five sentences that something is wrong, they know they will have a really difficult job.

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