If you want to talk to me about something I know, then talk to me about article writing. I’ve been in the “business” I guess you could say for well over a year now. Since my last Web hosting position didn’t pan out the way I wanted it to, I turned to the written word to earn an honest living. Writing articles for a living though, isn’t that easy. Sometimes you just can not find the topics you want to write about. Some days you just wake up and have no idea what kind of content you want to create.
Nobody can disagree that content creation is an important part of developing a successful Web site.
This article (via the folks at DevShed.com) does a great job of explaining what to do if you find yourself between a creative rock and a hard place. If you are a writer or just looking for something to write, listen to what the wise Charles Essmeier has to say.
Some six weeks ago, I began writing and submitting articles to free content sites in order to promote the six commercial Websites I own.The results have been both swift and dramatic, and the number of links from external Websites to my own Websites has increased from nearly nothing to more than 10,000 in a little more than a month. These results have inspired me to write more articles, and as I own six different Websites, I have six different topics to choose from. Still, my ideas occasionally run dry and that certainly happens to others who write articles for their own Websites. Writing and submitting articles on a regular basis does a lot for promoting your Websites, but where can you find more ideas for articles when you run out?
I have several sources that work for me. I subscribe to several newspapers as well as several news magazines. Most of my Websites are devoted to “topical” subjects, so the sorts of things I write about tend to be in the news. Sometimes, when reading an article about one of my topics, I find some angle or aspect of the topic I hadn’t previously considered.
You can check out the rest of the article if you need some more help. Inspiration is a hard thing to find sometimes, but once you do find it is worth the wait. Nothing gets me more fired up than a really good idea. Guess that means I picked the right career choice this time around.
