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This piece on the 10 (no, 11… yes, 11) tips for aspiring writers is not written from the catbird seat point of view of the article publisher or database manager. Rather it is by and from the view of an author who remembers the early misgivings. It is written particularly for the beginning article writer. I have written and submitted hundreds of compositions for publication to a horde of article directories and database managers and still finds article writing my enemy.

1. Necessity vs Desire:
Writings and Web blogs are necessary in present day scheme of indexing by search engines. Not what the newbie wants to hear. Just remember what the Bible 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 mostly anyone’s best wished house keeping tasks.

2. Just Being Writing, It Gets Lighter:
First it is sometimes tough to get a subject or theme and to get the first couple of lines scribbled down. We know authors 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 first thoughts, blogging and article usually works pretty smooth.

The important thing is that you get started. Choose a theme you know something about and just start. You will be enjoyably amazed at just how easily ideas flow. Don’t think everybody knows what you know. They do not. Will Rogers once said, “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. Your composition need not to be perfect. That is not to say it does not have to be on point or to say that it does not have to be correct. At least it does or it should be. But, our goal is not perfection and is, in fact, seldom possible. Too much detail and you run the risk of losing your reader on several levels. Too long and
most readers simply don’t have the time or interest to browse the whole material irrespective of how important it is.

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

Don’t over do it though. Too gaudy or too slow to load and you have wasted your time, ticked off a potential reader, and probably upset a server who can ban you from their publications. writings, 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 a lot of software that does this thing. A search for ‘free ASCII editor’ or for ‘free plain text editors’ will give you a lot of options. WordPress is a popular pick. If all else fails Notepad is enough for you to use.

6. Spelling and Grammar:
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 publishing of your article. Rather use its suggestions to make any unavoidable rectifications to your copy in plain text. The MS Word copy will work for blogs although other editors are favored.

Like the good old days when you were encouraged by teachers, you will find article and blog writing skills become better with time and practice.

7. Publish and Announce:
Once your blog is ready you may want to use some automatic tools to publish and announce it. First do a search for Blog hosts and select those suited to your needs. Join one or more and publish your blog there. Then search for blog announcers 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 compositions to free 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. Forbearance:
Now, have some patience. Here is where you lose control. Many of the men and women who host writings are timely and your writings 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 compositions. Do not be personal about this. It usually has little to do with you or your article.

Some databases routinely 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 fastest thing to do (and perhaps the only alternative) is to reject the whole article. You will learn who these are over time.

There are also people who review your writings through the sausage grinder and if they find certain words, regardless of how they are used, your article gets no farther. These are the people who can’t publish the Bile because of the words it contains that may offend readers. Don’t worry about these folks who are so heavenly minded they are of no earthly use.

Remember, just as in everything else in life, for every rule there is an exception.

10. Keep the faithBelieve, and keep cranking out writings:
Since most writers, especially starters, 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 driving visitors to your website while creating those all essential links to your sites.

It is not necessary that every host to accept everything submitted to them. After one or two servers publish your article on any given subject, the search engines tend to penalize additional postings of the same article. 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 step-up your page rankings or links reported by the search engines. It is more significant to get published by hosts with the highest Google page rank possible.

Now, one Incentive TIP for you: Together with “the rejection slip” will usually come a suggestion on how to “fix” your article and a asking that you resubmit it. Don’t blow your time. While trying comply with one database manager’s request you could have written a new article from which you get much more punch. There will be enough publishers will choose your article up so move on and save yourself some time and heartburn.

Each person has a thought or idea at least once a day usually at the untimeliest time. How many of these ideas have been lost because you waited before you write? Don’t procrastinate! Go! Capture that thought before it is gone forever.

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