It’s that time of the year again. School is back in session and discovery is in the air! Let’s get right into today’s subject and lesson plan with Professor Goudriter (pronounced goodwriter).

Today, you’ll discover some tips that will help you write quality, unique, and engaging articles, which will go a long way in determining your results.

Professor Goudriter’s Lesson Plan

First Lesson: Use All Of Your Resources To Come Up With Original Article Ideas

Here’s a short list of some places you can look for original article ideas:

• Websites Related to Your Niche
• Your Blog
• EzineArticles Blog
• Newspapers and Magazines
• Social Media Websites

  Research and awareness are 2 necessities to coming up with original article ideas.

  Second Lesson: Narrow Your Focus

  Instead of covering your topic in a broad sense, reduce your subject to a single word and brainstorm around that word. For example, if your niche is golf, take one aspect of golf, like putting, and jot down topics you’d like to cover related to putting. When doing this exercise, you’ll find there are tons of sub-topics within your main niche you could write about.

  Third Lesson: Address The Needs Of Your Audience

  Your article will resonate quickly with your audience if it’s relevant to helping them solve problems and makes their lives easier. This approach will help you build rapport with your readers fast and position you as the expert that you are. Reader-focused content gets results. Content that serves only you and your organization doesn’t!

  Fourth Lesson: Become Your Readers

  Put yourself in the shoes of your audience. Set a clock for 5 minutes and write down questions your readers might have in your niche. Stay in the mindset of your readers until you feel as though you’ve written down every major question they might have. Each question you come up with could possibly be its own unique article.

  Fifth Lesson: Start Writing!

  The only way you’re going to build a library of articles that will generate qualified traffic for you is to make the time to write. Schedule one hour of writing time into each day to make sure you’re putting your creative brainstorming ideas to good use.

  In closing, Professor Goudwriter leaves you with this message:

  Shortcuts never pay off in the long run! Using article spinning software or stealing content is a one way ticket to solitary detention.

  Creating a library of quality, original articles will make you the star of your class and allow you to drive a ton of qualified traffic to your website!

  ]]> http://www.sans-inscription.net/5-article-writing-lessons/feed/ 0 http://www.sans-inscription.net/10-tips-to-writing-a-successful-novel/ http://www.sans-inscription.net/10-tips-to-writing-a-successful-novel/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:00:08 +0000 http://www.sans-inscription.net/?p=10 Before embarking on the herculean task of writing a novel, its important that you understand the groundwork required. These 10 tips are a good way to help you get started, and its recommended that you apply all 10 tips early on in the novel. Goodluck in your endeavours, don’t forget to send us an advanced copy of your book.

  1. Start with an important action. Unpublished writers do not have the luxury of building up to a conflict or other main event. Something must happen right away to hook the reader (here, the reader always means the editor or agent.)

  2. Develop conflict. Things need to be stressful. If life is too easy for your characters, you will not hold the readers’ attention.

  3. Make promises–and keep them. Romance readers want romance; mystery readers expect a good puzzle, adventure lovers expect fast-paced action. Hint at things to come, then deliver. Everything must be resolved by the end of your novel, including the few little asides you might have introduced along the way. The lost dog found its home; the red herring was explained away; the secondary character’s role was revealed, etc.

  4. Introduce or foreshadow your main characters. Who the star(s) of your story is should be clear from the start. This also goes hand in hand with point of view. Decide before you start writing what viewpoint you will be using–first person, limited third person, multi-viewpoint, omniscient.

  5. Develop a main character your reader can identify with, worry about, and root for. Let the reader know who the good guys are–and the bad guys.

  6. Let the reader know up front what is at stake. What’s the conflict, what stands to be lost?

  7. Establish the setting. Let the reader know where we are, and when.

  8. The beginning must foreshadow the conclusion. Your story is not a random series of events. All activities are carefully linked together. All plot elements must intertwine with one another. And you must know the ending of your novel before you begin it.

  9. Set the pace. To some extent, the genre will dictate that for you. Historical romances are more leisurely, filled with description and flowery language; mysteries must go faster.

  10. Don’t digress. Everything mentioned in your book must have a reason for being there. If it doesn’t advance the story line, it shouldn’t be in your book. This includes dialogue for dialogue’s sake, motives that are weak, description of irrelevant items or scenery, gratuitous red herrings, and plot twists that don’t ultimately tie in.

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