Easiest Way To Write An Article

Posted on December 16, 2007

Think you cant write articles?

Its actually easier than you think. Sure you may think its hard to come up with 400 - 800 words especially if you don’t know much about the subject.

This was my exact predicament when I was introduced to article marketing. I had to write a minimum of 300 words for article directories to accept my article. Of course they set the limit that high for obvious reasons: 

So whats the easiest way to write an article.

You can use the point system.

You’ll find that some of the most popular articles on blogs and article directories go something like, “8 ways to….”,  ”7 Things You Should…”  or  ”Top 10 Most Useful…”.

If you can come up with 10 interesting points about your subject you have an article. All you have to do now is get some interesting content about those 10 points (or 7, or 8). When you can do this article writing even without the points system will become much more easier.

You can even start with this method of writing articles the easy way and then write it without the points. This will make your article look more like an article and this is especially useful if you can only come up with 2 - 3 points. You’ll have to do a lot of expanding though.

So if you have been wanting to start writing an article but put if off because you think its too hard try this method.

I have a friend who doesn’t like to write and when she used this method she did a really good article on losing weight.

Try it.

10 Ways to Find Article Writing Ideas

Posted on August 11, 2007

Are you having trouble finding ideas for your articles? I know I do sometimes. I think its common among writers to have a little writers block. Finding fresh ideas for your articles can sometimes get you frustrated that you just put it off until next time.

Here are some things you can do to get fresh ideas for article content:

  1. Visit Yahoo! Answers and browse the questions. There are literally hundreds of questions on a large variety of topics just waiting to be answered. Your answer could be the next idea for an article.
  2. Visit your favorite forum and browse the discussions. You might see a topic of interest that you could write an article on. If the forum is niche specific (and most forums are), then you can write with the intent of targeting that niche.
  3. If you are using Hubpages.com, they have a great section called Requests where users ask for specific topics. You can answer any of the questions available there.
  4. If you are using an internet cafe, you can go to Google and click in the search bar to see what people have been searching for. You will find all types of interesting topics to  write on. (Just don’t get sidetracked by the porn searches).
  5. Go to your bookmarks and do a website review or write about a website.
  6. Go to Yahoo’s homepage and write about the Top Searches (located in the bottom, right hand corner).
  7. Google Trends Hot Topics - if you use your blog to write about the topic, you could get a lot of visitors to your post.
  8. Google again… type in a random letter in the search box and Google will offer suggestions.
  9. Pick up a newpaper or a magazine and write about topics that are there. You may have a different perspective than one of the editors. For example, if you’ve heard an album that the editor reviewed, you can do a review on the same album. Hmmmm…. thats another one too - do reviews of cds, movies, dvds, etc
  10. Ask for suggestions - forums, a friend… just ask. Thats how I came up with the idea to post this topic. Someone asked for ”article writing ideas”.  I only gave them the first three..

There are many other ways to get ideas for writing articles. Use the ones above to find some topics to write about. You can come up with thousands of articles… yeah I know…who has time right? At least you won’t be needing ideas if you have that many.

By the way, check out How to Write Articles in 30 Minutes Flat. Excellent product, if you’re having trouble with article writing. 

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