Tips For Article Writing

I still consider myself a newbie here at the Warrior Forum. I forget how long I've been here, and it has taken me a little while to find my place in the Internet marketing world, but I finally took up some freelancing in article writing.

I figured that as I haven't had much to contribute to the community, I'll give a couple of tips to make life easier with article writing, whether you are a freelance article writer yourself or simply do your own articles for your own campaigns.

Real-time word counter - When writing articles, I wanted a quick way to keep finding out the current word count.

I used Word for a while, but it got annoying, so I started looking for other possible tools and came across Word Counter.

It's basically a plain white text box on a plain white page, and as you type into it, it gives you the word count up top in real-time. It's one of the most simple tools I've ever seen, but is fantastic for writing articles, especially as it's giving pretty much no visual distractions.

Also, knowing your current word count at all times can stop you from typing too much or too little on specific points you're going into.

Use eHow for ideas - When someone comes to you and wants you to write 50-100 articles in 2 days about a specific niche, you've got a challenge on your hands.

Not only can it be challenging enough to type so much in such little time, but the research involved adds a lot of time to your work, and you can often get to a certain point where your article ideas are running dry.

There are plenty of directories to get ideas from, but I suggest eHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles, and here's why. Practically any article you write about a big niche, has been done so many times already. eHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles in particular not only has a lot of articles you can do your own take on, but they make it very easy to skim through articles because they're all bullet-pointed.

Bullet points are magical things. They make it much quicker to absorb pieces of relevant information that you can include in your articles, and you don't end up going through endless large paragraphs of text in order to pick out bits of information for your articles.

Hopefully someone out there can find use in these tips.