Having Strategy while writing articles is IMPORTANT!
Do you have any strategy you use for writing articles? Do you plan out all the necessary details; i.e. an outline, or do you simply just sit down on your chair and start writing?
Developing a good strategy can help you to improve your productivity skills, plus improve your writing and editing skills.
The stages through which writing goes are: Planning, Pre-writing, Drafting, Revising and Editing. There is also a break time as one of a stage while writing your article.
Planning Stage
In the planning stage you’ll choose a topic, do some basic research on it, gather facts and organize your thoughts and ideas. You want to select a topic that is relevant to the product that you are promoting. Many writers create an outline in this stage or you may choose the pre-writing stage to draw out an outline.
Pre-Writing Stage
The pre-writing stage is much like an outline because this is where you determine your main points and sub points which you are going to include while writing the article.The creativity that is in you will often mentally pre-write the entire works for you or at least help you outline your major points so that it will be effortless when you begin to physically write.
Drafting Stage
The next stage is to write your rough draft. This is the stage in which most of us just sit and write with lots of excitement trying to get all our thoughts lined out. The writing in this stage is very random and probably wouldn’t make much sense to someone else reading it. But remember that this stage is very important because it lays the foundation.
BrEaK TIME!
Once the rough draft is finished, this is a good time to get away from your PC, unless you’re on a deadline. Take the time to have a snack like have a Coke or Lays Chips (yummy), or go for a walk or play with your dog or anything else man which makes you feel relax and fresh. You need this time away to regroup and come back with a fresh mind.
Read through your rough draft completely again. After reading through it you’ll decide if your thoughts were in order and clear to your readers or if you’ve left the reader hanging.
Revising Stage
Now start Revising your work. This is the process where you put things in a uniform pattern i.e move something up and down. This will make your article read with fluidity by your readers. You’re not looking for mistakes in this stage, although some will stick out.
The great thing about the revising and editing stages are they can be done simultaneously or you can go back and forth from one to another. But in the revising stage it is best to stick with getting the material lined out.
Editing Stage
The next stage is of editing. In this stage you’ll look for mistakes in spelling, grammar and punctuation. You may find some minor changes in revision during this stage too, especially if you find mistakes in grammar. But again, as I said earlier, revising and editing can simultaneously.
The Final Stage and Suggestion
The final stage is, of course, the finished work and should be ready to publish. If you feel you may have missed something and time allows you can always let it sit and come back later for another edit.
One suggestion I’d like to make is to always have something in each stage. Have one thing in the planning stage, another in pre-writing, another in revision, and one in editing stage. If you always have something in different stages you’ll have plenty of material to work on while taking a break from something else. Although, a nice walk can be good for you and sometimes you do need to get away from writing altogether.
I am sure that trying this strategy you will see improvement in your productivity and writing skills.
Do tell me if this helps in improving your writing skills also do let me know if you have any other strategy which you try on yourself .
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June 21, 2009
9:31 pm
Thanks for those strategies while writing any article. I will surely try to follow them and get the benefits as you mentioned. The funny part of this article is that “BrEaK Time Stage” in which you recommend many funny things.
June 21, 2009
9:33 pm
Thanks Matt. Well I also was feeling funny while writing about the Break Time! stage. Hope you would be having your own ways of felling fresh.
June 22, 2009
1:46 am
Great strategies! I must admit when I write a blog post it is much more random than this. But I will try this strategie.
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June 22, 2009
2:29 pm
I hope these strategies will help you in your photo blog.
June 23, 2009
7:00 pm
My article writing is basically “stream of consciousness” (I write whatever comes out of my head)…..but I’m always using the words “Non Cheesy Wedding DJ” because that is my ultimate goal of writing, to get those KW to the top of Google SERP.
June 24, 2009
5:14 pm
Thanks Matt for your valuable comment.
June 24, 2009
7:52 am
These are good suggestions. I tend to skip the break part and the editing. I think of a topic, research it, write it, read it over and make changes and then publish. I tend to make adjustments once it has already been published.
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June 24, 2009
5:11 pm
The Break time is important while writing big articles like 400+ words. If you don’t have a break while writing you might feel bored or may not get thought in your brain to write on that topic.
June 24, 2009
4:35 pm
Strategies when writing articles is very important, and previously we have to be cooked mempersipkan what the article will be published later, nice article my friend. keep blogging
June 24, 2009
5:08 pm
Thanks for your comment but I didn’t understood your word – “mempersipkan”. Is their any spelling mistake in it?
July 31, 2009
11:06 pm
@Typhoon, I have no editing stage before. But i’m agree it’s needed. Because sometime i do misstypo also. About grammar, hmm it can’t be helped since my english skill is limited. But i still learn english more and more.
Hehe too bad sometime i’m too long to be on break time and in the end the article is not finished in a time.
Anyway prev.comment, mempersiapkan is “prepare”. The commentator seem using translator to comment here
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July 1, 2009
4:24 am
I’m not a native english speaker, then every time I write an article I write it on office, because of the spelling stuff, it makes quite a good job, but i have to proof read so many times before submit it! That’s why I’m seriously considering hiring a professional writer later on…
July 3, 2009
11:44 pm
This is great information. I write my articles and then read it over, correct the spelling. And then I go and take a break like you suggested, and come back later or even the next day, cause that gives me time to think about what I have written so I can decide whether I want to change it in any way. It really does help me to do this like this.
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July 4, 2009
7:23 pm
Great to see that you are following a strategy for writing articles.
July 4, 2009
9:59 pm
Having Strategy while writing articles is IMPORTANT!
I Think Yes it is very important because in this way you can optimize your article for seo and give your article more value and you can also research about the topic that you had wrote via searching on Google with this you can make your article more valuable to your readers.
July 19, 2009
7:39 am
Thanks for the strategies. I am really having hard time writing worthy articles.
December 12, 2009
9:32 pm
Nice tips. The most important thing in this is the editing stage. Before publishing to the readers we much check it twice that our content is correct.
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