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9 Steps to Unique Articles
Written by Hans Hasselfors
1 Remove your limits
Reduce your subject to a single core word and then brainstorm around it. For example, if youre trying to write about Study Skills, expand your thinking to School. Now jot down everything that comes to mind when you think about School, and when you run out of ideas start asking yourself open questions around the subject and noting your answers.
Examples:
What did I enjoy about school?
What scared me?
What did I wish Id known from Day 1?
This will help you get back into the mindset of someone struggling with school issues of all kinds and youll start to get a feel for their concerns and worries.
2 Restore your focus
Once youve started to understand the general feelings of your readers, allow your mind to focus back on your original topic of Study Skills. From your new perspective, what questions would you ask? What would you want to know? Is this really a Studying issue or is it more about Time Management or being able to work without distractions or being paralyzed by the fear of not doing well?
3 Be your audience
Write each question on a separate sheet of paper; dont stop until you have at least ten and preferably more. Stay in the mindset of your readers until you feel youve asked every major question that concerns them.
4 Take a step back
Put your pile of question aside for a few hours, overnight if possible. Dont consciously think about them; just go about your day as usual. Give your subconscious time to process them without any further prompting from you. If new questions come to mind jot them down somewhere safe and then forget about them.
5 Get out your pen and write
When youre ready, sit down with your pages of questions and simply start to answer them. Writing your answers by hand can give you access to ideas that might be missed if you type them. Dont edit yourself at this stage. Using Speech to Text software or a digital recorder can also be helpful in bypassing the internal editor.
Imagine someone sitting in front of you asking for advice and just talk to them. Keep your tone natural and conversational and stay with the question-and-answer format.
6 Edit lightly
Trust your first instincts. Proof-read and correct any obvious errors, but dont do any major editing until your piece has had time to sit for a while. Again, leaving it overnight will give you a fresh perspective the next time you look at it, but even if your deadline doesnt allow for that its important to give yourself a break from it.
When youre pushed for time, writing several articles at one sitting can create enough change of focus to make you forget the one youve just written.
7 Polish it up
Short articles are unlikely to need major editing if youve written them as described here. They will flow easily and naturally already and having each Q & A on a separate sheet makes it easier to select only the ones you want. Your job now is to put them in a reasonably logical sequence and make sure theyre understandable and that the reader is led smoothly from one question and answer to the next.
8 Top and tail it
Write a brief introductory paragraph as a teaser for the main article. Many article directories now put the first paragraph of each piece into RSS feeds which are picked up by other websites, so youll want to make sure that your two or three major keywords appear at least once in that first paragraph.
Write another short paragraph to summarize the major points of the article and provide some ideas for the reader to explore the subject further. Dont of course forget your own resource box: use the format SubmitYourNewArticle.com for your link, so when your article is converted to html your link will automatically be live.
9 Submit it!
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