Generating Interesting Articles and Titles – Part Two
Delving into parts we should not have to reach....colon cleansing made "interesting"
My previous post provided some generic formulae widely used for generating articles and titles that readers are attracted to. As a professional writer, you are not always in a position to pick and choose your assignments and you may be faced with producing content on the most unsavoury of topics. In this instance, I recently had to deal with an assignment on colon cleansing, and though the memory still haunts me, the writing show must nevertheless go on.
Previously, I dealt with "How to.." Lists and quoted a "Study" as a way of generating titles and articles. I will finish this off here, with three more general formula techniques.
The "Trend" is Your Friend !
Fashion is fickle and there are always new "trends" that are being latched on to. It's not difficult to pick up on a "fad" and turn that to your advantage, with your subject material. In this practical case, my memory recalls that Princess Diana was a colonic devotee, but I think that would be an article title too far, under the circumstances.
My cursory research into colon cleansing immediately threw up that there are two major methods of colon cleansing - using fibre based products and "oxygen" cleansers. There is a clear trend at the moment for "fiber" cleansers (this was for an American audience) and so it becomes simple to adapt an article and title to this trend.
Copyright – A Must For Internet Safety
It is a common trend, today, that online content is often found to be republished on other websites without permission being asked from, or credit given to, the original author of the writing. As more professionals make their work available online, protecting it is of primary importance. It is imperative that writers and publishers take steps in protecting their work from people who use it for personal gain. Copyrighting all their online material, gives writers and producers the safety that is needed to protect their work.
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, architectural and certain other intellectual works.
Only the owner/manufacturer/creator of the work has permission to:
- Copy the work.
- Create derivative works based upon the work.
- Sell, rent, lease, and lend copies of the work.
- Publicly perform literary, musical, dramatic, a motion picture and other audiovisual works.
- Publicly perform sound recordings.
If you do not own text, graphics, music, audiovisual or other intellectual property that you want to make copies of, or use for your projects (such as Web pages), you need to get permission from the owner. Once the entire process of copyrighting is done, you need to make sure that internet users are aware of the fact that your material is copyrighted. Make sure that your website has a copyright notice as this helps reduce the amount of people using your material without your permission.
Mistakes That Ruin Your Writing
The following are the most common mistakes that people make in writing.
1) Poor grammar, spelling, typos and usage
One of the basic aspects of writing is being grammatically correct, without making silly spelling mistakes. The single most common error that people make is the usage of the passive voice. In passive voice, nothing is ever anyone's fault, because people do not do things. Things happen to people. "Bobby ate the pizza" is active. "The pizza was eaten" is passive. Note that the action of food and the food is more important than the character in the passive voice. When writers are unsure of themselves they often drop into the passive voice. Along with this, people often make mistakes in the usage of tenses. Immature writers will begin stories in whatever tense they want, and not maintain logic in their use of tenses.
2) Character developing
When one is writing fiction, character development is very essential. Avoid uninteresting characters. A story with dull characters will make the story dull as well. Let the characters life be full of action, nobody wants to read about a character who sleeps, gets up and goes to sleep again. Make the character humorous, yet amidst the humour, don’t lose focus of your character. If your character is someone you know, make them seem more real. Make this character do things that you would want your friend to do. Make him run after his dog, get slapped by a girl, or get caught by the police for speeding. This will make the narrative interesting.
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