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Adding beef and getting your point across.

by fin
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I've got 2 problems with writing my articles. They are ok, but I want them to be the best.

My first problem is adding the beef. When I write my articles which are usually over 1000 words, I aim for about 10 points, then try to make each point about 100 words.

I always seem to jump straight to the punchline, for example:

1- The best thing about the food is the size of the serving.

2- If your ever worried about starving to death, this won't be a problem, as the best thing about the food is the size of the serving.

The reason I want to add beef is for the quality of the writing. Not for the word count.

The second thing is the way I speak. I want my writing to be cool and hip, based on my niche, of course. Not sounding like i'm writing an official document.

Now i'm not saying my writing says that, exactly, but I want it to seem conversational and coming from my mouth.

I know what I want to write. It just doesn't hit the spot.

Cheers
fin
#adding #beef #point
  • Profile picture of the author Melanie Crouse
    Have you tried Dragon Naturally Speaking or another speech to text program? I have never used them, as I tend to communicate better through writing than speech for some reason, but for you it might be just the thing to get it out the way you want it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
    A conversational tone article that is a 1000 words long could be difficult to read.

    In my opinion, probably the best kind of writing - the kind that gets read, paid attention to and acted upon, is only as long as it is. Unless you think of other sub-topics to put into your writing, and write about those, your articles are not going to flow and people are going to stop reading them.

    If your goal is to get people to read your entire article, then leaving early might be a problem. If your goal is word count, to meet some specific goal other than getting people to read, then it doesn't make much difference what you write as long as you get your keywords into the body of the article.

    I am thinking that you sound like you want people to stay on your pages and read your articles, and if that is the case, they probably need to be broken up into smaller sections.

    It used to be that 10 points was a good amount of sub topics to offer in an article. But with the amount of information that is available online now, it could be that three points per article might be better suited to keeping people engaged on your page.
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  • Profile picture of the author fin
    @Melanie - Thanks but i'm Scottish so I don't think that would work, LOL.

    @JM - The info im writing is something people should want to read. I know what your saying and i'd just like to add what I want, BUT, there might be people interested in reading it.

    I'll have links to each section at the top, but using Edinburgh as an example, I might want to include an intro, places to eat, sleep, things to do, see, nightlife, transport...etc...
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