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Strategies For Preparing Yourself To Become A Writing Ideas Generator(TM)!

And useful titles or topics to write about on a daily basis, let me intimate you with a thinking strategy I employ to make myself constantly able to generate interesting, before we start talking about the actual techniques you can use, first.

In the mind of your target audience , you are unlikely to get the positive exposure and resultant rise in credibility that you desire, if your chosen writing topic(and content) is not one that will interest and benefit readers, the truth is even if you start and finish writing it.

" etc. " or "There's got to be a better way to do this! "Can't someone do something about this, which often make you wonder, look out for those issues you find you feel strongly about, in particular? To help you identify potential writing topics, hear etc), remember this at all times: You must continually analyse the activities you engage in(what you see, so.

Almost without having to think, and which - if you were woken up in the middle of the night - you would be able to speak about, you will be looking to write titles that relate to issues that you have a passion for. Or an experience you had - good or bad - which helped you learn something that turned out useful etc, you can also write to share your discovery of a new way of doing something.

That enables you apply your professional expertise or specialised knowledge to contribute to development of people and society, evidence of this would be demonstrated by an ability to write about current affairs or issues in society in a way. One must demonstrate an awareness of his/her environment, i believe that as a business person. Sometimes your subject does not even have to relate directly to your area of expertise, in my opinion.

This will happen, believe me! Even as you spontaneously add more topics to the list, you would consequently have to work doubly hard to write content for each article topic. And you will be amazed at the speed with which you'll subsequently be able to generate a constantly growing list of new topics, make doing the above a habit.

Specific Actions For Preparation

Till they become deeply ingrained habits, the actions described below are to be done continually.

You might want to do some writing and get your stuff out there for syndication - and more marketing exposure which could lead to new business, rather than dwell on that fact, at this time. Or it could be when business is actually slow! If you are not too tired, that could be after close of work. You may find that the best time to write will be during periods when your work demands have slowed down. Find/Use YOUR Best Time To Write. 1.

You can also think up some "sanctions" s/he can impose on you if you do not "impress". Agree a date or a specific interval when s/he will ask to know how far you have gone. Spouse or mentor, business partner, could be your best friend. To periodically ask you about your progress, with empathy for what you wish to do, you may find it useful to deliberately enlist a trusted person, depending on how self-driven and disciplined you are. Enlist The Support Of Trusted Others. 2.

So as to reflect deeply about an issue or topic I consider of writing potential, but I have often found it useful to withdraw from people(even if only "mentally"), some may not need to do this. People differ, again. You need to dig deep within yourself, to ensure you really come up with an original piece of writing. Create Quiet Time For Deep Thinking. 3.

You are unlikely to come up with much that would be of any use, if you have chosen a subject you have little knowledge about or experience in, of course. Solutions etc, you are able to generate YOUR own ideas for discussing the subject and come up with original perspectives for analysis, during this time.

Ever noticed that? Human beings are never at a loss for words when they have to contribute to discussions about issues they feel strongly about. That's why I said choose a subject you feel strongly about and/or have a passion for.

To get enough ideas, depending on the topic, weeks or even months, it can take you days. To read on the subject you want to write about, deep thinking on your own) should you pick up ANY previously written material by yourself or anyone else. Only AFTER doing this step(i.e. One more thing on this.

You are unlikely to get much of what has been called "share of mind" amongst them, "Well he never seems to say anything that has not been said before", if they read your writings and keep thinking! Which your competition may not, and have something useful to offer, you write in order to make people believe you are credible/knowledgeable, remember.

A few of them will also be submitted to other websites(like http://www.ezinarticles.com) to generate additional exposure for me. This article you are reading is one of over forty new ones I chose to begin uploading to my website from 1st April 2006, for example. This time I mean YOU setting specific target dates when you will finish writing say "ten(10) new articles". It's still worth mentioning again, even though I touched on this when talking about your trusted "others". Always Set A Target Date. 4.

And only those other "helpers" just mentioned will save you, one or two naughty ones always "escape" getting caught by YOUR eyes, for some reason! Have someone proof-read it for you, if possible. Don't stop there. Then "eye-spell-check" it again, spell-check with your word processor. Be Thorough - BUT Don't Go Overboard! 5.

Effort must be also made - constantly - to achieve certain standards of writing that will impress your readers enough to make them accept you as the authority you claim to be(or seek to become), however. It's true that aiming for perfection can lead to work that never leaves the table.

All this should enable you intelligently spice up your writing with variations that keep your prose from becoming boring. Use a thesaurus, to find words with similar meanings. Use a dictionary. Improve your vocabulary. And reflect often - deeply too - on what you read, read wide. So you can become a better writer, constant Self-Development Work hard on yourself. 6.

And enjoying your writings, you can be sure majority of your readers will have little - if any - difficulty making sense of, that way. Is to make sure a sixth grader can easily read and understand anything you write, a rule of thumb I am aware is well followed on the net. Avoid using needlessly complex words that could alienate some of your readers. Keep It Simple, as they say. A WARNING!

Specific Writing Techniques You Can Use

I provide practical examples as I progress. Instead of having to wait till you can continue using the former technique, only to pick up your pace again by switching to another technique, due to say "writer's block"), and get stuck at one point(say, you may sometimes begin a writing project using one technique, in my experience.

Use A Mind Map 1.

I go through this every day. You will - if you follow the advice offered here - likely get to a point where you are constantly battling to scribble down multiple suggestions of ideas and discussion points for different article titles in your head, as I mentioned earlier! I use it every day to keep myself sane :-). This is my number ONE tool!

That bad feeling taught me over the years to ALWAYS remember to write them down. Losing money gives a bad feeling. I always felt like I had lost a huge sum of money, anytime that has happened to me. If not all, if you fail to write them down YOU WILL FORGET most. Know this.

To learn how to use one, you can also read Tony Buzan's books on Speed Reading and Mind Mapping. The results returned were most helpful to him! I helped out a client who had a phobia for speech writing by "Googling" the string "How to write a speech in five minutes using a Mind Map", about two years ago. Google the string "How to use a mind map" for useful resources that will teach you how to use that powerful thinking and learning tool. When you're in your quiet time, the Mind Map is useful in doing all this.

Making it necessary for me to improvise for those periods when I do not have access to the computer :-), maybe that's because I work in a country where electricity supply still remains quite erratic. I find the old fashioned method of sitting in a quiet corner with my pen on paper suits me best.

It can be simply invaluable, as a speech writing(or speech making) tool therefore. And even use it to generate additional ideas to develop the map further, you are still able to make sense of it, keyword or acronym in the web-like mass of linked lines, yet when you look at the short phrase. Is that it saves you having to write so much in order to put down another relevant thought, the best part of using the mind map however.

And at the same time quite pleasurable, believe me when I say Mind Mapping can make your writing feel effortless! About 48 hours before I wrote it, this article you are reading was prepared using a Mind Map. Will boost your productivity dramatically, learning and writing, becoming proficient at using Mind Maps for your thinking! Even if you decide to discard everything else you read in this article MAKE SURE YOU HOLD ON TO THIS ONE.

Prepare A Dummy Presentation 2.

After which you will have to take questions, let's say you have only 20 to 30 minutes to speak. Pretend you have to prepare a set of presentation slides based on their chosen topic. Imagine you want to give a presentation to a very important group of people who are likely to use your performance as a key factor in deciding whether or not to hire you to execute a project for them in your area of expertise.

Ask yourself the following questions:

Write those down. What are the most important things you need to make sure you say that will show that you KNOW your subject and get you a standing ovation. A.

Write those down too. What are the likely objections some members of your listening audience will have ? B.

What are the proposals you want to make for action the audience may need to take Write those down as well. C.

Write those down too. AFTER they have departed fro the venue about YOU and YOUR presentation topic that will make them tell others , what is/are the most important lessons you want your audience to remember? D.

Till you're sure it's done, polish and refine it. Sit down in front of your PC and use those notes you generated to type out a draft of your article, now. If you had to speak, go through the collection of bullet point ideas you have and arrange them in the logical order you would want to present them.

Develop And/Or Use A Writing Template 3.

I was a highly self-motivated employee who chose to function as a positive change agent, back in paid employment. I have found it particularly useful for writing quick proposals in the workplace, although this technique is easily applicable for other purposes(like writing of articles/books).

) (Read my article titled Achieve Recognition and Attract Career Advancement Opportunities By Being A Change Agent to learn how I used my proposals to influence positive changes in my last workplace. Sometimes resulting in changes being effected in the way things were being done, my proposals were written to senior management, in many cases. I was very much into the habit of writing proposals, in this regard.

And time was often not something they had in generous amounts.Such people therefore naturally lacked patience for lengthy proposals, they were very busy people. These were usually highly numerate individuals with prior lower management experience in the technical function they now oversaw. The format I used was based on an understanding I had developed of my intended target audience: Senior Corporate Executives in the technical function. Then modified to suit whatever my intended purpose was, i had a format or template that I always started with, in writing my proposals.

Then the body of the write up comprised the following sub-headings: Next came the proposal topic. Department etc, my name, date, always had the company name, the top of the paper. Sticking only to relevant facts and/or notable exceptions, in a straightforward manner, i developed a format that enabled me present my entire proposal at anyone time on ONE A4 sheet of paper, so. And which I was determined to have them respond to/take action on, but I felt I had a few ideas I wanted them to consider.

The Solution Recommended The Alternatives Proposed - or sometimes (d). The Problem Identified (c). The Current Situation (b). (a).

And measurable benefits that could be derived, i would use the above sub-headings to highlight key technical issues in such a way that my proposed solutions would be easy to evaluate in terms of direct.

So that you quickly generate an outline and content for your article topics, the point of the foregoing is to suggest that you develop a format or template of your own that will stimulate your thinking better.

Start A Series 4.

To convert it to an Internet email autoresponder course, i decided(based on the good responses and high ratings in the completed speaker feedback forms returned to me by those who attended), after delivering this talk to a number of audiences for about three months. Seminars and coaching programs to them, i began offering a FREE one-hour talk - Ten Ways You Can Use Self-Development To Create The Future You Want - to various organisations that fit my target audience profile as a means of marketing my Self-Development talks, in May 2002. I'll narrate a true personal story to explain how it works. This is probably the easiest technique anyone can successfully use to write and publish a book.

If they liked what they read in the first one, requesting that they recommend it to others, i sent an email out to people already on my mailing list inviting them to sign up for the ecourse, next. And set it up as the first of ten auto responder email course lessons accessible by activating my auto responder at http://www.getresponse.com, one afternoon I did that for the First Way. So I knew I would practically have to write each of the Ten Ways(or lessons) the way I normally spoke about them to my audience, my speaker notes were only bullet point outlines.

, sometimes setting up lessons for two consecutive weeks in one week so as to buy myself some time to do other things  i found myself working very hard to write each week's lesson well ahead, to cut the long story short. Else the subscribers would get nothing and I would look very bad, now I HAD TO make sure the lesson for week 2 of the course was ready before the autoresponder was due to send it out. Then I realised I was in trouble. I noticed about five people had signed up, by the afternoon of the next day.

I realized I had effectively written a complete book, and the e-course was completed by the first subscriber, by the time the ten weeks were over!

I have purchased copies of the manual from one of my online stores located at http://www.lulu.com/sdaproducts - and even sent one out as a gift to a friend in another country. The experience I gained from doing it all opened my eyes to income generating opportunities via POD publishing. today,

Talk about killing two birds with one stone! And a new book ready for publication, you'll end up with a set of published articles. Then you would work hard to finish the book by writing more articles on a similar theme till you're done. Write one article and publish it with a footnote or byline saying it is an excerpt from a forthcoming book, for instance, you could. I have narrated the above story to show you how I discovered that starting a writing "series" can help one start and finish writing a book.

Prepare A Sales Advert 5.

It must contain details that will convince those who read it to buy the book (and hopefully not return it), in order for the advert to be successful. Start by writing a sales advert for it, i once read an article in which the author proposed that to write a book.

A book, you would use the advert you have written to decide what to say/write in the article - or better still, basically. The above logic - though unusual - is easy enough to understand.

That will then guide you to write content in the book that you expect will elicit responses close to that in your dummy testimonial. In which a reader highlights useful value s/he got from reading your (yet to be written) book, you could decide to write a dummy testimonial, in your own sales ad.

Get someone you know to look through it and give you some qualitative feedback, if you are not sure you can do this objectively enough. That its contents fully meet the expectations raised in the sales advert you wrote for it, next write content that ensures readers of the finished book will agree. Then prepare the sales advert . Choose the topic. You might find it helps to think like this in generating ideas of what to say in your new book, but given some thought and with practice, it appears a bit clumsy.

Then go back and RE-WORK IT, if you get a NO. Would I feel an irresistible urge to purchase a copy of the book it describes, it might be useful to ask yourself this question : If I saw this ad in a newspaper or on the net, finally?

Use Excerpts From Your Books 6.

Could provide an excellent source of new writing topics and ideas, books you have written (they may or may not have been published) in the past.

I would have written another article based on that insight, some days or weeks later. That could make up a new article, and realise some new experiences have given me even more ideas on it, report or book I wrote, i come across that part of the article, what then happens is sometime in the future. I decide it might be better to leave them as they are, but when I look at the topic I am supposed to be focussed on. I have noticed that sometimes there are points I would love to discuss further or elaborate on a bit more, whenever I write. Writing can be an interesting experience.

With a listing of click-enabled article titles or URLs, there the writer adds a heading such as "Related Articles". Evidence that this happens is probably what is sometimes seen at the end of some articles.

Thereby giving you a chance to close the sale, or possibly contact you, and that may eventually lead to her becoming impressed enough to order a product or service from your site. Or in the body of your writing is very likely to help you keep a visitor that fits your target audience profile on your website longer than if you had not used such techniques, adding such related URL links at the end, from a website usability and web marketing point of view.

Summary

And/or an enduring passion for, that is why you MUST choose to write on topics that you have a natural interest in. If s/he is to record the results described, the strategies and techniques I have described in this article require the user to apply them for his/her purposes with commitment.

A process of continuous improvement) that any individual can choose to embark upon. Based on my understanding of success in any endeavour as being a "never ending journey in the pursuit of excellence"(i.e, i do so. A number of ways by which I strive daily to become more proficient in my writing, what I have done here is to share with the reader. I will point out that I make no claims to having perfected the art of writing, in writing this article, lastly.

I wish you success.