The Easiest Way to Become an Internet Article Writer

Passionate Ben · Site Admin Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 47

The Easiest Way to Become an Internet Article Writer

All speakers and writers who become great speakers and writers have two needs.

To be a great speaker you need to have:

1) a real and valuable knowledge of the subject you are addressing, and

2) a burning desire to share what you have to offer with others.

To be a great writer you need to have:

1) a real and valuable knowledge about the topic you are writing about, and

2) a burning desire to share what you have to offer with others.

In other words, be a good storyteller so people will listen to or read your stories.

We all must begin where we are at, whether we think we can become an internet article writer or not.

So what exactly is good writing? The best writing glides along the ice like a speed skater in a 1,500 meter race. You ride on his effortless stride, you marvel at his form, you feel his intensity and sense of controlled urgency, you appreciate his sense of competitiveness, you find yourself with him, stride for stride, measuring his distance from the leader of the pack, wondering if he can actually win, suddenly you lose control and jump into the race, you lean as he leans going around the curve, you wonder if he has what it takes to close the gap, your attention becomes riveted as he begins to narrow the margin, your heartbeat increases as he gains ground, you are glued to the moment, and then he puts on a final sprint, finally draws even, and wins by the blink of an eyelash!

My God, you were there. When he mounts the awards stand and the flag of his nation rises, you rise with it. He was your choice, and he won!

Is it any wonder that athletes have such a strong following among spectators? Athletes become our heroes in any vicarious way possible. We wear a jersey when we watch the game.

After the game, we play a pick-up game with our kids in the back yard. We love the feel of being in the thick of the competition, and winning.

Switching back to our main topic, what exactly is good writing?

Some people think a good sentence should be short and simple.

To the point.

Obvious.

In the first example above, the sentence goes on and on and on (168 words!), and yet you kept reading.

Writing can be either way and be effective, and there are Pulitzer Prize winners to prove it. For simple writing with short sentences, read Ernest Hemingway?s "The Old Man and the Sea." Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

For sentences that go on and on and on forever, read William Faulkner?s "The Sound and the Fury," it is filled with long, convoluted sentences.

Nonetheless, Faulkner, like Hemingway, also won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Both were legendary novelists with opposite writing styles, and therein lies the easiest way to become an articles writer.

What is important is developing a style of writing that you are comfortable with. Even more important is getting your thoughts, some thoughts, any thoughts, onto your monitor.

Until you put the letters on your keyboard onto your monitor, you are not a writer. The moment you do you have the potential to be an articles writer.

Once you have a sentence, any sentence, in front of you, you can pick it apart and make it better, because you have taken the thought out of your head and into the workplace of improvement.

Write something on your monitor and it becomes manageable; try to formulate the perfect sentence in your head before you put it on your monitor, and your article may never get written.

The frustration of trying to write the perfect sentence brings on writer?s block, the inability to put your thoughts into meaningful sentences. Forget about being an articles writer, just get started and you will become one.

Go ahead, start. Begin now. Write anything down, and then make it better.

You are now on your way to becoming an internet article writer.

Ed Bagley started writing for money at 16 and in the next 45 years was an investigative reporter, sports editor and mangaging editor for daily newspapers, newspaper publishing company owner, niche book publishing company owner, personal marketing specialist, and now is a mentor, consultant, confidant and an internet marketer. Visit Ed Bagley at...
http://www.Internet-Marketing-NorthWest.com
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divasoul · Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 47

Interesting post. I always wondered if I could follow my first love of writing.
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Passionate Ben · Site Admin Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 47

Hey sweets,

I'm going to be building a women only Article Directory for the media and be training angels on article writing and how to get published like me. Hell, I'm no writer. But a damn good marketing and human behavior person! ; )

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HardcorePrincess · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 6

I would love to spread my thoughts around the internet. I want to share what I know with everyone.
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spicytwo2 · Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 16

This is great info, it can be applied to anytime you need to write something, as I start back into the routine at college I will look back on this for info when I have to write for my classes like hotel sales and marketing, thanks
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Angelique · Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

That is very interesting, now we can all learn how and to let us voices heard. I am so with you divasoul.

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Damaged.Defected · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 14

DivaSoul.. I am with you on that.. ALOT of voices do need to be heard.. and thanks ben for the good insite on how to become a great wrighter.. I aint much of a wrighter.. I wright my little poems as you have already read.. but they aint all that great.. but any insite on how to do that.. is great.. cause I do love to wright.. no matter how good or bad it is.. it is very releaving..
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cynnara · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

Sorry I couldn't post some of my fave links regarding writing nonfic and fiction before now. I was on deadline and just made it. Now I get to relax for a couple of days before my new release comes out and deal with edits on the next book. lol

These are some of my favourite links that I go to on a fairly regular basis. Also, there is a book by Shirley Jump called "How to Publish Your Articles" that I highly recommend. She's a fantastic fiction and nonfiction writer and someone who takes time to help others to learn more about the craft of writing for both fiction and nonfiction.
http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&btob=Y&EAN=9780757000164&itm=4

http://www.writing-world.com/freelance/index.shtml Goes through the various steps of how to figure what to write, research, writing, editing, and where to submit.

http://www.freelancewriting.com/content/browse-articles-2-1.html They have tons of articles on freelancing and how to go about writing for nonfic andfic.

http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles.html Same here.

http://www.spicygreeniguana.com/ For sci-fi, fantasy, horror and other genre writers to find a place to submit their short fiction work.

http://www.write-resource.com/Articles and support for writing

http://www.writingfordollars.com/ Great place to find new markets and find the markets that pay.

Those are some of my links. I'll see what I have written among my own articles as well as some of my favourite individual areas as well.

Cyn