Big Blog Wolf

This article on the 10 (no, 11… yes, 11) tips for aspiring authors is not written from the catbird seat point of view of the article publisher or database manager. It is rather by and from the point of view of an writer who thinks the early misgivings. It is composed particularly for the starting article writer. I have composed and presented hundreds of articles for publication to a horde of article hosts and database managers and still finds article writing my enemy.

1. Necessity vs Desire:
Compositions and Web blogs are necessary in today’s scheme of search engine indexing. Not what the newbie wants to hear. Just think what the Holy Book states, “there has nothing over taken you that is not common to man”. That’s right! Many of us detest article and blogging at times, and some of us dread the journey to pen and paper (or keyboard as the case may be) all the time. Many a webmaster would call them “a unavoidable evil” as they are not broadly speaking anyone’s best wished house keeping chores.

2. Just Start, It Gets Better:
First it is often tough to get a subject or theme and to get started. We know writers who literally get sick thinking about the process. Lighten up. There are a lot to write about, name it: alternative medicine, cancer diseases, true religion, life insurance, playing online poker, cheap insurance. Others may think of even more unusual topics such as penis enlargement and cheap viagra. Once an writer has a starting point and gets passed the initial thoughts, blogging and article usually goes pretty smoothly.

The important thing is that you get started. Choose a topic you are familiar with and know something about and just begin writing. You will be pleasantly surprised at just how easily ideas flow. Don’t take everybody knows what you know. They don’t. Will Rogers once uttered, “all men are ignorant, just on different subjects”. And, so it is!

3. Good vs Perfection:
Your old English teacher is not looking over your shoulder. This paper does not have to be perfect. It doesn’t mean it should not get a point or to say that it does not have to be correct. It does or at least it should be. However, our goal is not perfection and is, in fact, seldom possible. Too much detail and you run the danger of losing your reader on several levels. Too long and
most readers simply don’t have the time or interest to read the material regardless of how important it is.

4. Length of Blog vs Length of Article:
Most publishers require a minimum of six hundred (600) words per article - some will let you slide with four hundred (400) words. Blogs can be much smaller. Blogs can and maybe should support appropriate photos and embedded links.

Just don’t over do it. Too gaudy or too slow to load and you have wasted your time, ticked off a potential reader, and probably upset a publisher who can ban you entirely from their service. articles, then again, typically cannot carry these extra touches concurring to the requirements of most publishers.

5. Format:
Save your article in ASCII format. There are many tools that does this thing. A search the web for “free ASCII editor” will give you a lot of tools to choose from. WordPress is a standard pick. If all else fails simply use notepad to turn out your masterpiece.

6. Grammar and Spelling:
Once you have your article or blog run it through a good spell checker and a good grammar checker. Microsoft Word works well for these purposes. Just don’t use the MS Word copy for writing of your article. Rather use its suggestions to make any unavoidable rectifications to your plain text copy. The MS Word copy will work for blogs although other editors are preferred.

Just like the days when you were encouraged by teachers, you will find article and blog writing skills become easier with time and practice.

7. Publish and Announce:
Once your article is ready you may want to use some software to publish and announce it. First do a search for Blog hosts and select those which best suit your needs. Register in one or more and publish your blog there. Then search for blog and RSS announcers and utilize them to get your blog known.

Now that you have that out of the way find an article wizard that will post your articles to free web publishers. You can post them one at a time by hand if you are really bored and have absolutely nothing else in life to do. Using an automatic poster you can publish to hundreds of servers in an hour or so. The only way to go.

8. Patience:
Now, have some forbearance. Here is where you lose control. Many of those who host articles are timely and your articles will be reviewed in a span of 24 to 48 hours. But, many others will be days and weeks down the road therefore never date an article - a sure way to get rejected.

9. Rejection - “sorry your article has been declined”:
Be prepared for most directories to reject your writings. Do not take it personally. It usually has little to do with you or your article.

Some sites instantly reject articles for spelling errors when there are none or where there is more than way to spell a word. And, just as in any other endeavor some hosts are simply too slow-moving and get so far behind, the easiest and quickest thing to do (and perhaps the only alternative) is to reject the whole article. You will know who do this over time.

There are also people who review your writings through the sausage grinder and if they find certain words, irrespective of how they are used, your article are instantly junked. These are the people who can’t publish the Holy Bible because of the words it contains that may offend readers. These are people who are narrow-minded and doesn’t deserve a place in article writing.

Remember the rule: In every rule, there is an exemption.

10. Always believe, and keep cranking out articles:
Since most authors, especially newbies, prepare only one copy of an article against the advice of most seasoned authors it is important that the newbie keep his chin up - keep the faith. That will be easier as more and more of your writings are accepted and published getting visitors to your website while creating those all important back links.

It is not necessary that every host to accept every submission. After one or two servers publish your article on any given subject, the search engines tend to penalize you anyway by ignoring additional postings. This is close to spamming and while it could help someone find you, it probably won’t. It is not necessarily, the more the merrier. The additional listings will not increment your page rankings or links reported by the search engines. It is more significant to get your article published by servers with the highest Google PageRank possible.

Now, one EXTRA TIP for you: Along with “the rejection slip” will usually come a proposition on how to “fix” your article and a request that you resubmit it. Do not blow your time. While trying comply with one database manager’s request you could have written a new article where you can get more punch. There will be enough web publishers will pick your article up so move on and save yourself some time and heartburn.

Everybody has a thought or idea at least once a day usually at the most inopportune time. How many good ideas have you lost because of waiting? Don’t procrastinate! Go! Capture that thought before it is gone forever.

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