Article Writing…

By Nicole Dean

Wisdom can be found in the most unexpected places. Today, wisdom bubbled up from a pineapple under the sea. I suddenly realized that everything you’d want to know about writing articles for your website can be taught by SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends.

When you write for your newsletter, blog, or website, which character are you most like?

Mr. Krabs: This crustacean is focused on one thing and one thing only, making more and more and more money. Only a cartoon could actually have dollar signs drawn in his eyes. He thinks of no one, only how he can benefit. Are your articles focused on you or on the reader? Are you providing information or do you have blinders on, thinking only about how you can make money from the article you are writing? If your article reads like an ad or is self-serving or full of affiliate links, you might write like Mr. Krabs.

Plankton: The smallest creature in the sea is also the sneakiest. He’ll do anything and hurt anyone to steal someoneelse’s work (the Krabby Pattie secret formula). Write your own material. Don’t be Plankton. Don’t copy and paste someone else’s work, edit it, and try to pass it off as your own. You will be caught, and it just isn’t worth it. Take the same amount of effort and work on your own thoughts and ideas. Plankton never gets away with his schemes, either. He’s on Plan “Z” and is still pathetically failing at his attempts to steal the secret formula.

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I thought I should just insert some more fun into this article writing tips article.  So check out the Spongebob videos below. Enjoy!

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Patrick: SpongeBob’s best friend, the starfish, has a good heart, but isn’t the brightest creature in the sea. Do your articles make you sound like an expert? Are you providing valuable content or just pushing out sloppy articles as fast as you can? Always double check for typos and grammatical errors. If you’re challenged by spelling and grammar, hire a Virtual Assistant or Copywriter to proofread and submit your article for you. Or slow down, set your article aside for a day and then reread it before you click the “submit” button.

Squidward: Squidward is B-O-R-I-N-G. When writing articles, are you a Squidward? Do you just get the words down on paper or are you finding a fun twist to entertain your audience and keep them coming back for more? Take time to make your articles stand out from the thousands of other dull articles out there by including personal stories or just having fun while writing. For instance, this article could be entitled “How to Write a Good Article”, but would it stand out from the hundreds of other articles about article writing? Probably not.

SpongeBob: This little guy always tries to do the right thing, and is a hard worker. He may not always end up getting the results he hoped for, but he bounces back and tackles his work with a renewed vigor. SpongeBob works very hard, he’s a good friend, he always thinks of others, and tries to have fun no matter what he is faced with. Hardworking, friendly SpongeBob is the guy to be when writing articles.

Although this is a silly lesson in article writing, I hope you’ll remember the important messages our underwater friends have taught us.

1. Write articles to help others, not with dollar signs in your eyes.

2. Write your own material. Don’t copy others.

3. Proofread your articles carefully, and provide valuable information.

4. Be entertaining. Not boring.

5. Be a SpongeBob! Hard work and persistence pay off.

Before you know it, you’ll develop a following for having informative and entertaining articles and you’ll be King or Queen of the sea.

Author Resource – Nicole Dean is published all over the web, under numerous pen names. She welcomes you to visit
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When I sit down in front of my computer to write my articles, sometimes I end up feeling like a cup with a hole in it. My brain seems completely empty…nothing is coming in or going out. I guess this is what they call writer’s block. So here’s what I do. I consult my good friend and savior…the forum.

Using a forum is one of the quickest and easiest ways to find enough content to write your article in 15 minutes or less. Note: You can actually borrow some of the questions and answers people post on the forums and just put them in your own words. That’s it. It takes me 15 minutes sometimes to write my articles because of my friend and trusted pal… the forum.

Let’s just dig a little deeper into what I’m actually talking about here. If you’re writing an article on how to avoid hair loss, just go to google.com and type in the words, “Hair loss forums,” in the search engine. You would be surprised to see how many forums you would find in that niche on google.com.

Go to the forum of your choice and check out some of the topics listed. You will find an abundance of information on that topic, all of the things that people are talking about regarding hair loss. Before you get started, I recommend that you open up your notepad, wordpad, etc on your computer and copy and paste some of the questions and answers from the forum.

Once you do that, take those questions, answers, tips etc, and completely rewrite them by adding your own unique style, and make sure you focus on your reader. I usually write and then I come up with the title afterwards. The title is extremely important as it is the deciding factor as to whether your article would be read or not. This is one of my many tips for finding content for my articles when my “Brain is leaking.”

I also love to visit answers.yahoo.com. It is filled with lots of questions and answers also. So you can actually write “question and answer” articles, which many people tend to like. I don’t actually use forums for all of my articles, like this one, but I highly recommend it for squeezing out an article quickly and easily when you’re sitting at your computer and suffering with writer’s block.

Article writing is one of the many ways of getting free traffic and back links to your website or blog. Although it can be tedious at times, it’s a great way to drive free traffic to your sites. Try using the forums in your niche and you would be amazed at how quickly and easily you can churn out articles and even content for your videos in only 15 minutes.

You might actually end up just like me… claiming the forums as your good old dependable friend.