Article Writing

I have put off writing in my blog because I guess the simple reason was I hadn’t thought of anything that “tripped my trigger.”

Well if you have been reading my other posts you know that Dixie Brown has been my mentor for this thing called internet marketing or what I am trying to do is affiliate marketing. Without knowing how to do any of this internet marketing, even though I have been to some seminars like Matt Bacak’s on Internet Marketing I didn’t have the slightest clue as to how to writing blogs, ezine articles, and getting into groups and now something new I just learned is about social networking (wow, has my brain been trying to shut down with all of this). Usually that is the case, my brain just shuts down and I don’t get anything done, but now for whatever reason I have decided not to let it do that to me. I said, Brain, I am in control and not you so just except the challenge because we are going to do what Dixie says.

So I have spent the day searching on ‘how to write articles’. Let me tell you I never thought I would ever be doing any of this writing, because I am one of those who sat beside the smartest kid in school (my cousin) and always felt dumb because the first day of Kindergarten he had to be the one to tell the teacher my name because for whatever reason I couldn’t do it and going through 13 years of having him next to my side wasn’t fun. Now let’s get back to ‘how to write an article’, I discovered that there are some very important things not to do and why not. I will just talk about the big one here.

In my research I found that maybe you need to start with “thinking obituaries” this is what an article about “How to Write Articles” on Wikihow says, “If you're new to writing, start small. Think obituaries,...” Now that one I couldn’t believe, that is something easy because most of the time other people write them for you, but my thought was that well that would probably be what I would be doing if I hadn’t done this little bit of research on writing ezine articles. I have found and what Dixie has pointed out to me is never copy anybody else’s words without identifying the source as to who or where it came from. Why that is is because that will automatically send you to an early grave in the writing field faster than anything you do. So DO NOT Plagiarize other peoples work. If you can’t think of another way to word it just drop it or reveal the source.

So I know I need to apologize to Jeff Wellman because of this I need to come clean and fess up to my mistake. Jeff I am sorry that I have copied some of your material and I promise to never do it again. Please forgive me. I have just started so I would really like to be around for a while to see where this could take me.

Just a thought here, it just dawned on me that in school it was against the rule to copy, but here we can copy as long as we identify the source. Now that is thought provoking. Maybe if I would have copied my cousin’s papers and just wrote his name at the bottom for the source of the material I could have gotten away with it. And then maybe not.

10 Basic Components to Writing an Article.

1. Do your research. There are many places you can go on the Internet to fine what you want to write about in just a matter of a few minutes.
2. Find a quit place to write.
3. Have an uncluttered place to write. (This is something I need to work on.)
4. Before starting take some deep relaxing breaths. Latter on I would like to describe an exercise that is great for this.
5. Start writing, let the pen flow. No need to make corrections now.
6. When you are finished go back and reread and start making corrections and deleting anything you feel doesn’t need to be there. Remember no fluff (no exaggerations, just good content).
7. Go back and reread several times again (could be as many as 40 times).
Remember to check to see that you marked all of your quotes and give your source if you did any copying. NO plagiarizing.
8. Use Spellcheck (very important).
9. Have someone else read your article to see if you missed anything and to get their thoughts and you keep rereading it also.
10. Now you are ready to turn your article into the article submitters, post it on your blog, make your newsletter or if you are writing for a newspaper or magazine your article should be ready to be submitted there.
Happy Article Writing.
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