05 Nov 09 Finding Ideas To Write About
One of the huge problems being a writer, is finding your ideas. You have to be able to create an influx of ideas, even when you feel stuck. Part of having the longevity to have a writing career is knowing how to work past the tough days. As a writer, not having an idea of what to write about just isn’t an option, so here are a few tips to make sure you always have fresh ones aplenty.
Something that people are usually able to write about at any time, is an issue that bothers them. Whether a story in the news, or in your personal life, write about something you dislike. This can be a useful exercise, as it’s easy to let yourself rant. Once the words start flowing about something, they’ll start flowing about everything.
If you have a personal blog, which all writers should have, try writing about something different. If you mostly focus on your current daily life, try writing about your past. Think about the way things were before you are now. Confront some hardships, or an aspect of your life that you miss. Anything that moves you, to get those creative parts of your brain moving and working.
Try to challenge yourself. Write outside of your comfort zone. Anything that forces you to think outside of your normal box. That’s a useful activity to help you constantly see scenarios in different ways, so that you’ll always have new ideas.
The more you can force yourself to write about different things, the more you’ll be able to write. Part of writing is letting yourself write content that you aren’t confident about. You don’t always have to submit that work for someone else’s approval, but progress is progress. At least getting something out will make you feel better, and less stressed for the next time.
Tags: Brain, Comfort Zone, Creative, Different Things, Different Ways, Exercise, Hardships, Influx, Longevity, Personal Blog, Personal Life, Scenarios, Tough Days
18 Jul 09 5 Tips To Better Writing
Whenever you’re writing any sort of internet content, whether it be for a blog or otherwise, you always strive to write better content. Writing is a business of trying to constantly make yourself grow and flourish in different ways, to improve your writing, and the overall quality of your content. Writing is a hard thing to do well, and takes an awful lot of practice for you to get better at, but there are a few tips you should be aware of as you make your way down that road.
- Know your audience
- Avoid common grammatical errors
- Focus on your readers
- Chop off useless sentences
- Don’t preach
Know your intended audience, as you will be writing for them. So if you’re writing a piece of information about cycling for example, you would want to include some insider knowledge involving the latest bicycle tech or other equipment. Showing that you are in the know regarding your topics validates your opinions to your readers, and keeps them coming back for more info.
Avoid commonly made grammatical mistakes. Nothing frustrates a reader like their inability to quickly skim through your writing because of grammatical errors that should have been caught before the final draft.
Put your focus to your audience. If you are trying to demonstrate a point, or act as a guide for any topic stay away from using the word “I” in favor of “you”. For example, you wouldn’t want to write “I do this, so you should too.”. You want to gravitate towards more of a “you should do this, and here’s why” to create a dialogue with the reader, and show them why what you’re writing is important to them.
Never rephrase the same sentence a few times in one of your works just to act as filler. That’s repetitive and will put your reader to sleep. You want a short concise, well edited, grammatically correct piece of work. Get to the point, but make sure the road to that point is engaging.
Never preach that your method is the best because it’s your method. That will turn off a reader faster than you would think. Nobody wants to read a self inflating brag fest that does little more than bloat your own ego. People want to read how what you have to say applies to them, not that they should follow your example because you’re so awesome.
Tags: Act, Audience, Bicycle, blog, Common Grammatical Errors, Dialogue, Different Ways, Final Draft, Focus, Grammatical Mistakes, Insider Knowledge, Internet Content, Sentences, Sleep, Using The Word
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