19 Jan 10 Developing Ideas To Write About

A large part of being a better writer involves how you manage your ideas. There will be times where you feel you just can’t think of anything to write about, and how you work through them is extremely important. For any freelance writer, or blogger, and even website owner, keeping the new ideas flowing is where your money comes from. So how do you keep the well from going dry?

Well for starters, carry a notebook with you wherever you go. Of course in the modern age of technology, a smart phone or a PDA can serve the same purpose. Anything that enables you to quickly jot down an idea while you’re on the run. Frequently ideas hit us whey you’d least expect, and you have to be ready to write down that idea so that you can save it for use when you have the time. That’s one of the best ways to stay fresh and full of new concepts.

Make sure that you read as often as possible. For a writer, reading is a great weapon because gaining knowledge influences you to think. With that thinking about a certain piece you’ve read, comes new ideas or concepts you’ll be motivated to write about.

Try having a running dialogue with someone else in the industry, or even the audience of where you write. See what their feelings are on your writing, or what’s going on in the common culture that relates to what you write. That can give you plenty of ideas because you’ll see how someone else thinks. That may influence you to write a new topic, or an old topic rewritten from a different point of view.

Always keep up on the news as much as possible. Current events are what get the most reads, because the majority of internet searchers are looking for information regarding news. Keeping current, and relevant to where the world is in this instant is key. Plus all the different news stories are bound to influence something that you’ll want to write about.

Tags: Audience, Blogger, Bound, Culture, Current Events, Different Point Of View, Feelings, Freelance Writer, Internet Searchers, Jot Down, Knowledge, Money, News Stories, Notebook, Pda, Point Of View, Running Dialogue, Smart Phone, Starters

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28 Sep 09 5 More Ways to Improve Your Writing Part-VIII

The actual process of writing is indeed a lonely undertaking, but many things happen before you sit and start writing, and these many things shape your writing, therefore going out is as important as is sitting alone to write. In this part of the 5 Ways to Improve Your Writing series, I will talk about the benefits of socializing.

Writing group

Join a writing group in your neighborhood. Make sure it is not very far because distance works as a deterrent for many new writers. If you could not find a writing group in your neighborhood, form one.

Book reading club

Become a member of a book reading club. This will help you refine your existing ideas, and it will also help you get new ideas. Reading is the best advice that can be given to a writer. A writer who does not read cannot produce a good quality work for long. If there is not any book reading club in your neighborhood then form one.

Socialize with writers

Talking to fellow writers will help you unearth many hidden issues, and it will also help you find answers of many unasked questions as well. A practicing writer can become a better guide in telling you how to write, how to use different writing tools, and how to keep your writing simple yet powerful.

Meet someone who is not like you

Meeting a person who is not like you, and who has different point of view, desires, values, etc., will give you a good understanding in human nature. Meet a person of such standing and reflect on the experience you have by meeting him, and the experiences he or she shared with you.

Leave your couch

This is important. Your couch has become your comfort zone, or is it your chair that has become your comfort zone? Challenge yourself and break free. I am asking you to leave your comfort zone, and try meeting new people, and experiencing new things. The more experience you will bag, the better accomplished writer you will become.

Tags: Book Reading, Comfort Zone, Couch, Desires, Different Point Of View, Experiences, Fellow Writers, Good Understanding, Human Nature, Many Things, Neighborhood, Point Of View, Quality Work, Reading Club, Shape, Sit, Unasked Questions, Undertaking, Writing Group, Writing Tools

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20 Aug 09 Writing Copy? Begin with a Headline

This appears ridiculous, isn’t it? Yes, it does, but to the untrained eyes. For the seasoned professional this is yet another way to ideate for a blog-post or an article. A headline not only gives a reader an idea about what to expect from the article or post, but it can also be used to seed the idea for a blog-post or an article in the mind of the writer.

On numerous occasions, we have inklings about the thing we want to write about, but we cannot convert it into a good article because we do not know from where to start and what to write first to convert the idea into an article. In the situation like this, a pre-written powerful headline comes to our rescue. It works as a guiding post for us, which shows us the end of the article. The pre-written headline will tell what you should write to fulfill the promise it made to the readers of your blog or website.

Let’s say, you have to write on a topic related to health and you have some idea about what all should be covered, but you are not sure from where to begin writing. Should you start saying why health is wealth; or should you start by saying the things to do to have a healthy life; or is talking about the detrimental effect of stress on our life what you want to write about?

In the above example, you can see that each topic is different and will require different treatment. Is this why you are confused? Now, look back at the above written topic again, but from a different point of view. From the point of view of a headline. Let’s write the headline first, and see how we fare.

“10 Stress-relieving Tips for a Healthy Life”

“How to lead Stress-free, and Happy Life”

“Health, Wealth and Stress”

You may have noticed, although, each of them deals with the same subject, each of the three headlines needs different treatment. Each of the headlines suggested above tells us what we have to write about. They help us organize our thought in a particular way. A headline set course for us, and it also tells the reader what kind of article is coming. It is a promise made by you and fulfilled by the article.

A headline sets a goal for us that we must reach by shaping words and sculpting sentences to give it a form of an article.

Tags: blog, Detrimental Effect, Different Point Of View, Effect Of Stress, Happy Life, Headlines, Health Wealth, Inkling, Occasions, Point Of View, Stress Relieving Tips, Untrained Eyes

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19 Jan 10 Developing Ideas To Write About

28 Sep 09 5 More Ways to Improve Your Writing Part-VIII

Writing group

Book reading club

Socialize with writers

Meet someone who is not like you

Leave your couch

20 Aug 09 Writing Copy? Begin with a Headline

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