ARTICLE WRITING

Hi again

How did you get on with the previous posting? I hope you took a look at the various styles of article writing because I hate to be the bearer of bad news but writing articles is something you will be doing a lot of!

Regardless of whichever direction you would like your writing career to go, you will have to write ‘hundreds’ of articles. However before you cringe in horror, writing articles is a chore that you will get use to and be able to complete one in under an hour. Most of the top writers take about 20 mins to turn out 400-500 word articles, practice makes perfect.

Tomorrow we will look at Blogging but one of the most successful ways to promote your blog is by submitting articles to the directories. You can earn money via article writing either with the sites like www.helium.com, www.hubpages.com or www.associatedcontent.com


In a later posting I will cover article writing for freelancers, but let’s get you going on some basic sites first.

When it comes to the next phase of your career, say you want to write an ebook and maybe the length of that seems daunting, just imagine the book broken down into separated article sections. Now it doesn’t seem so scary!

Practice, write an article today and submit it somewhere. At the very least you can start earning a little money while you learn.

Until next time


Lucy

Start Writing Today

If you are just contemplating on starting a new career by writing for profit, you probably are going through a period of self doubt and seriously asking yourself whether you really can write.

Believe me anyone who wants to write, can write. Sometimes you just need to go through a learning curve and the best way to begin is to start writing.

For the novice one of the best places to begin is to take a look at Helium. Here you will discover writers from all levels, amateur to professionals. Go to: www.helium.com
and have a really good look around, read several articles and take a look at the authors.

Then check out the guidelines and writing standards that Helium requires, choose a topic of you own choice, write and submit. All articles are rated, the higher your rating the more revenue you can earn. Unfortunately payments for articles written can be quite small to start with, contribute often, gain those stars and your earnings will grow. (My personal note – if you stop writing for Helium, your stars will fall off – mine have – but you continue to earn revenue from them)

As you write and submit each article you will grow as a writer, understanding why some of your work is rated higher than others will help to hone your skills.

Good Luck and Start Today


Lucy