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Monday, April 7, 2014

Writing News Lead

The short-story writer begins his story with minor facts until he reaches the climax. He would withhold the most important information until the end of the story. While the news reporter does not organize his stories in the same way. Because newspaper readers want the more important information first, the news reporter begins with the climax. Then as he discloses the most important information, he works away from climax to the lesser facts.

The first and most important paragraph of the news story is called lead. Readers will normally judge a story on newspaper by its lead. If it does not grab their attention, they will not read on. It summarizes the contents of the story and conveys its mood and a sense of urgency.

Read More: Best Lead to Writing News Story a Reporter’s Job to Succeed on Print Media | Writinghood

Monday, March 10, 2014

Finding Ideas is No Longer a Big Deal

If you were just a novice blogger or a beginner online writer and are experiencing the difficulty of getting ideas to write for articles to be published on your blog site or website - you can actually consult to the dictionary of subjects. This can help you level-up your online blogging activities but of course, bear in mind also that an article on an everyday topic can be more profitable if you can begin with a topical reference.

The important thing in subject finding is to get a starting tip to focus your thoughts. Any dictionary will provide you countless starting points; sometimes a single word will suggest many subjects. Jot down all the ideas that occur to you and select those on which you can say something of interest to the average reader. Sometimes one word will frequently suggest another. Of course, there are other ways in finding ideas like Dickens – he drew his material from the London streets. Richard Jefferies from the hedgerows and fields while Conrad from the sea.

Furthermore, looking for ideas is amusing than waiting for them to come your way. Wherever you live there are people who are ready to give you interesting facts drawn from their special experience – provided that you make the right approach for them. Keep your ears open. There are lots of specialists around you – specialists in food, sports, education, housing, decoration and etc. All these people have expert knowledge and they may have interesting things to reveal to you about current trends in their particular field.

For more details: The Dictionary of Subjects and Ideas

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Use Google+, Facebook and Pinterest For Your Articles Marketing

Legally and without spamming, you can promote your columns across the net through the different methods to use. There are several ways to market columns across the net. And there are several media tools available online to help you for this purpose. You can maximize the use of all social networks and other bookmarking sites you are familiar to expose your stuff across the Internet.

My Google+ Profile Page

First of all, you should create an account at Google+, Facebook and Pinterest. And then make friends with other users on those websites. Visit their profile pages. If you’re happy to leave some comments on their profile pages – go ahead, you can do so. If some of your friends shared some stuff to you – appreciate them. If they asked you to share those stuff to your other friends – fulfill their wishes – these are part of establishing friendships virtually on this virtual world. Now if the time comes that you requested them for their favors – they could not say no.

At Google plus – you can create a Google page aside from your Google+ profile page. Your Google+ page will cater all what you published on this site. The method is simple – just share the URL link of every column or article you published here on that page you created at Google+. After you shared the link – you will see the title of your article and the summary of your article. And share it publicly or share it only to your Google circle of friends.

At Facebook, you can also create a page about your article pages. Just follow instruction on how to create a Facebook page – they are all available on their site. And when it is done, you can start sharing your published columns on that FB page you created. This is not about FB Networkedblogs. What I am talking here is about a page created only for all columns you published on ExpertsColumn and other websites you are writing for including from your blog sites. This is not also a FB fan page.

When everything is established – start now inviting your FB friends to like your newly created Article Page at FB. This is my FB page I created for my articles the name is: Wikinut Awesome For Articles Sharing. So far, it garnered 47 likes and they are my followers already. And this is open to all the writers who would have the interest to like and share their awesome articles on that page too. And I allowed at least three articles to share per day but I reject items especially about porno.

The methods I applied at Google+ and Facebook is as the same I applied at Pinterest. On that site my Pinterest account name is pruelpo and the link is Pruelpo on Pinterest. So far, I have fifty two followers. Some of them have also re-pinned what I pinned.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Writers are Considered The Blood Veins of a Revenue Sharing Site

Content Creators are the contributors who are dedicated on writing their best articles or columns and willing to publish them on the site they are writing for. These writers are considered the blood veins of a revenue sharing site. Without them – no revenue sharing site could exist longer – unless the owner and its moderators would multiply themselves one thousand times and would stay writing and publishing them on the site round the clock or the owner would pay ghost-writers.

It is normal that users of every publishing site has no choice but to adhere to the policies of the site. ExpertsColumn is one and it is a revenue sharing site. Now to re-publish columns or articles on this site is no longer allowed.

ExpertsColumn has changed one of its policies - it is no longer accepting columns that are already published somewhere else. The effect of this ruling started after October 15, 2012. This is just a fresh reminder for those authors who have registered with the site on October 16, 2012 could no longer re-post their awesome and original columns. But those authors who have registered earlier before the said ruling was intensified by the site could still enjoy their freedom to re-publish articles or columns that are already published for as long they are originally written by them.

If you’re already writing for the site, you already have familiarized the guidelines, but for those who have just registered on the site and those who are planning to write for the site, I am happy to share it to you. I quoted below the following 8 important writing guidelines:

ExpertsColumn accept only original content. Columns found containing copied content will be deleted without any notice and concerned author profiles would also get deleted.
This is compulsory word count should be more than 300 words for all the categories except poetry and recipes category.
On this site re-posting is not allowed for authors who have registered after October 15th, 2012.
ExpertsColumn allows only up to 3 reference links and that too at the end of the column body. Links are not allowed anywhere else and no affiliate links in the body please.
On this site citation is necessary for every column. Make sure you put the links to references that you took information from.
Your columns must obey AdSense Program Policies given here or they will simply delete them without any prior notice.
The site accepts columns written in English language only.
And your column must be properly formatted in every sense as per their writing guidelines.

Aside ExpertsColumn, I also write for Allvoices, Bukisa, Squidoo, Triond, HubPages and Wikinut. I also maintain couple of blog sites. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject that interests me under the merciless sun. My favorite saying: "Dream big and don't stop without giving it a chance to come true."

Friday, June 8, 2012

Notebook is The Easiest to Use Way of Getting The Ideas Down Safely

For making notes when out and about, tape recorders and mobile phones will work or when an idea occurs that you want to record quickly but aside from them notebooks are also useful for this purpose. All writers should carry a notebook and pen or pencil wherever they go. Gordon Pemberton explains this so well in his handbook How to Write Your Textbook.

He said: “The human mind is a complicated mechanism, with plenty of anomalies. On the one hand it can come up with a really bright idea when you are not consciously searching for one. On the other hand it can forget ideas in a mtter of seconds. A writer’s lament is often, ‘It was a great idea that came to me and now I have forgotten what it was.’

I use a hard-backed notebook because I can write in it anywhere wiothout needing anything to rest it on. A very apt title for one of my books came into my mind some years ago when I was in the middle of a filed of tall rhubarb, trying to recover my son’s kit. I stopped immdediately, took out the notebook and wrote it down, much to the puzzlement of several onlookers. But, if you don’t do this kind of thing, you may lose a good idea.”

Such experiences as this are quite common for writers. So, always have your notebook handy – even if it does make a small bulge in your pocket or handbag! You should also keep notebooks or files for your writing ideas and for any pieces of incidental writing you do. You never know when you may be able to use them. Whenever an idea comes to you for an article, story or plot – write it down.

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About the Author – My favorite Saying: “Dream Big and don’t stop without giving it a chance to come true.” I am a father of 3 for 25 years, OFW for 17 years , a Blogger, sometimes a Poet, Self-motivated and Professional by experience. You can call me Paul or Pruel. I am friendly animal but can kick you off when it is needed. LOL. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject that interests me under the merciless sun.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

No Shop for Ideas

Cover of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...

Cover via Amazon

Some of us are asking Where do you get your column or article ideas rather than How do you think up article ideas - the person quizzing us is implying that there is a shop somewhere - known only to professional article writers - where we go to get ideas for articles.

Some of us would not admit to the silly, sad, quirky and downright worrying things that suddenly appeal to our imaginations and make them rush to put down a story article or a column on paper because we always thought that by doing it is weirdness - without realizing that if we can think up two, three, six or more article ideas a day - they are as likely to share that solid-gold secret as a guaranteed system for attracting more traffics and views.

The truth is that article writers or columnists don't need an idea shop. They are constantly churning over snippets of ideas in their heads, slotting together random thoughts and seeing what gels into the beginning of an article. They keep their eyes and ears open.

Observation is the key. Don't let ourselves become so hassled that we don't have time to look around. Article ideas are all around us. We just need to stop and watch. By recording things that we see around us improves our observational skills. So stop, watch, record and think.

Sources for ideas:

1. What if - Here we must imagine a world where everything we know gets turned on it head. What if there was a place where children hated ice cream but loved vegetables. What if animals could talk as fluently as the same the language that people use?

2. Talking Pictures - grab a bundle of old magazines. Cut out any pictures that take your fancy. Stick them in a drawer. When you look at them months later - out of context - you will be astounded by the ideas they spark.

3. Holy Smoke - people have been raiding the Bible for story ideas for more than 2,000 years - why stop now? Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark. There is not copyright on it.

4. Once Upon a Time - there is no copyright on fairy tales. Imagine the fun you can have sticking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into fiction setting - maybe she's an astronaut and the dwarfs are aliens.

5. Read All About It - the newspapers are packed with story ideas - hidden away in the quirky fillers at the bottom of the page. A quick scan of one day's papers should provide us with enough ideas to write.

6. Scribbles - jotting down a line or two when we see or hear something that tickles our imagination while we are out and about. Then when we need to write a story article - we will have a fund of potential ideas.

7. Funny Titles - when we are out and about or when we are alone sitting down on our favorite chair, we sometimes spotted ourselves laughing - usually it is happening when we are thinking event happened from the past or an event happened just recently. They are mine of ideas too.

8. Bard Luck - Shakespeare can be another great source of ideas. Sometimes you have to take time to read Shakespeare writings.

9. All The Pun of The Fair - we can also get a quirky new article idea from playing about with puns - about the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning.

10. Nick, Nick - I am not advocating plagiarism. I don't suggest that we will go round stealing other people's articles and stories but we can come up with fresh ideas using published works as inspiration. We can also borrow from ourselves. If we are lucky enough to have several published articles under our belts we can go back and look at them and rewrite them.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

How to Write Your First Article or Story

Words have a power all their own (Photo credit: waɪ.tiː)

To write article or story is not easy task but it is within everyone’s grasp – if you know the right techniques. It is a mechanical process that everyone can master if you use the right ingredients. In my experience as a blogger, I found some interesting things needed to improve with my blogging hobby. The following are some of the interesting points that value an article and I would like to share them here.

Title Of The Article

The title of the article should be an attention grabbing or a descriptive one. Also it can be in a form of a question. Ten words for a title are acceptable but if you can shorten it, the better.

Introduction of The Article

The introduction of the article should reveal the most interesting and most highlighted points about the article’s contents.

What Attract More Readership?

Images, photos and videos included in the article can help attract more visitors and readers. They are available in the internet though it is better if you owned them.

The Importance of Tags and other Keywords

Some of us write their blog articles without considering the importance of tags. Tag is a word or group of words that suggests about the contents and substance of the article and when a surfer hit that word during his search it will lead him to a particular article. Some writers use the titles of their articles as tags.

The Importance of Back links

I learned that not just any back link will do. Only those from sites with relevant topics or subjects get counted. So if you wanted to apply back links on your article sharing - if you can avoid do not use click here use text words.

Nobody Is Perfect

Article should not contain a bunch of wrong spellings, punctuations and grammar errors though we sometimes overlooked of them. Of course, nobody is perfect here. However, we can avoid them.

Inject Honesty And love

Lying here is a sin and a crime. So before writing your article, you would have to gather information that will support your article and investigate them before hand for their validity.

Avoid Writing Long Article

If your article is long write it by parts. The best length of an article that people read mostly during surfing the net ranges from 200, 300 to 500 words or a 5 minutes slot.

Avoid Run-On and Long Sentences

Of course, no-one will kick you off if you used run-on sentences when writing article. However, it is better to avoid them. Short sentences in your article are more readable and understandable.

The Importance of 5Ws When Writing Article

The article should answers the 5Ws: Who, What, Why, When and Where - before you blog it. This is a basic formula that needs attention!

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My First Quarter at Wikinut is Awesome

Wikinut (Photo credit: strovek)

At this moment I am preparing and reconditioning myself for my vacation which is due on May 1, 2012. So this is the reason why I digested facts from my previous articles and put together into one article as my overall status – this is also another way to promote my pages at Wikinut publishing site across the Internet.

From July 28, 2010 to March 31, 2012, there are about 234 articles I published already at Wikinut. Those articles were written in between working hours in Saudi Arabia during the normal working days from Saturday and Thursday. And this year 2012, my first quarter at Wikinut was awesome in terms of views and earnings.

As of March 31, 2012, my Wikinut overall standings are as follows:

My Wikinut article pages received a total of 244,072 views
My Wikinut total earnings has reached so far to 12.325 Sterling pounds
And I already received payments of 9.56 Sterling pounds
My total referred new Wikinut writers has reached to 40
I already published 234 articles
My total followers has reached to 245
And my total nutpoints recorded were 8,979

For the month of January 2012:

Total views received – 25,246
Total earnings – 1.285 Sterling pounds
Total referred new Wikinut writers – 3
Total published articles – 20

For the month of February 2012:

Total views received – 24,683
Total earnings – 1.129 Sterling pounds
Total referred new Wikinut writer – 1
Total published articles – 11

For the month of March 2012:

Total views received – 23,682
Total Earnings – 1.293 Sterling pounds
Total published articles – 3

From January to March 2012, the total views my Wikinut pages received has reached so far to 73,611. My total earnings were 3.707 Sterling pounds. My total referred new Wikinut writers were 4 and thirty-four published articles.

The articles I published at Wikinut in March 2012

There are only three articles I published at Wikinut in March 2012. They are:

In February 2012, I published eleven articles

I am happy at least I published eleven articles in February 2012. They are as follows:

Twenty articles I published in January 2012

During the month of January 2012, my target articles to write were actually 31 but I failed. Of course, I am still happy because these twenty articles are still attracting crawlers for traffic and views – they are:

In addition to it, I also included my latest published articles for April 2012 as follows:

Even if I am away, if someone visited my Wikinut pages, he/she will be redirected to some of my previous published articles. And as I always said, there are many ways to expose those old published articles across the Internet which are legal and no spamming. Also often use your Blog sites to promote your articles published at Wikinut and from other publishing sites.

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Which is the best publishing site? Is it Wikinut, ExpertsColumn or Triond

Wikinut, Triond and ExpertsColumn are all admirable publishing sites. It is really hard to distinguish the differences about them. And maybe most online writers would ask - How the three publishing sites differ from one another? What method should be used to spot their differences?
Here I applied some keywords and tags. They are representing the same 23 articles or columns that I have published at Triond, Wikinut and ExpertsColumn. And through them I aptly had determined how effectively those publishing sites supported their writers in the manner of attracting views and promoting their writers’ stuff across the net like:

As I said earlier, those keywords and tags are representing the same 23 articles published on those sites and they helped me determined the differences between the three publishing sites in term of views respectively. As of this writing from March 1, 2012 my Triond pages garnered a total of 525 views so far. My Wikinut pages received a total of 15,103 views. While my ExpertsColumn pages received a total of 1,402 views. Of course, I used the same method on sharing those 23 articles published at Triond, Wikinut and ExpertsColumn across the net. But Triond has the least recorded views among them.
Earlier this month I received payment from Triond for February amounting to 66 dollars cents. At Wikinut I also received payment from December 8 to March 7, 2012 (3 mos) amounting to 3.02 Sterling pounds. And from ExpertsColumn I received payment from June 1, 2011 to March 18, 2012 on March 20, 2012 amounting to 5 dollars.
Summing up the total views from those sites from the date I began writing with them – my ExpertsColumn pages received a total of 2,101 views from June 1, 2011 to March 20, 2012. My Triond pages received a total of 30,931 views so far from August 17, 2010 to March 20, 2012. While my Wikinut pages received a total of 230,785 views from July 28, 2010 to March 20, 2012.
Despite diverse feedbacks we read about those sites, still, they are all standing robustly as strong bridges for our ideas and our inspiring thoughts to pass by for the thousands or for the million net users across the Internet. They are serving as virtual worlds where to share of our alluring dreams and our exciting emotions. And sometimes the focal points of friendships among writers.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

If Children Ruled The World There Will Be No Heinous Crimes

The world would not become a den of several criminal crimes such as war, graft and corruption, terrorism, rebellion, cheating, drug addiction, rape, smuggling, kidnapping, sex slavery and prostitution, child abuse, spousal abuse and other heinous crimes.

There will be no impeachment trials of presidents, chief justices of supreme court like what is happening now in the Philippines. There will be no martial law to be imposed to a certain country as there will be no rebellion acts against any governments. There will be no demonstrations and rallies to check the wrong doings of government officials.

Thanks to CharliePrinceNYC for this video uploaded on Feb 29, 2012

However, we should know also that kids can be much crueler than adults. The world would be like a big trash pile because children don’t put anything away. The world would become messier and full of lost things. And the rate of development would be slower because children want something just for fun and are apt to ignore something related to world development.

The world would experience more humorous trial and error because children don’t think as carefully as adults do. Children might ignore adults also because adults don’t have power. Adults would feel lonely and some of them might try to commit suicide due to their situation.

And the world would be a disaster unless an adult were behind every child. If the children were in the congress and senate they would talk just about funny things and they would play all the time.

If they were bank directors they would spend all the money on games, candies or parties. Adults would have to work not to receive money but toys, candies and chocolate. Most school classes would disappear. The world would become rough and wild. And no one would like to be adults and parents would feel very sad!
What an awful image of the world!

Continue Reading: But what if the time comes that the world is ruled by children? Who will oppose it to happen?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Aftermath of 2011 Backlinks Experiment is Still Driving Traffic to My Wikinut Pages

Wikipedia define Backlinks as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links - they are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node or connection point from another web node. Inbound links were originally important as a primary means of web navigation; their significance lies in search engine optimization. The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. The backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

My backlinks experiment was done with hard works and concentration. It took me almost a day to finish the project. First I had gathered all the things needed for this experiment such as:

I copied all the article titles I published at Wikinut - there are about 200 of them.
I determined what category each article falls - there are about 15 categories.
I regrouped all the article titles according to category.
I logged -on to Windows Live Writer - this is owned by Microsoft.
Inside Live Writer, I determined the best title for this project.
I determined the best and grabbing summary for this experiment.
And then I started writing a short article regarding this project.
And then on the article body I distributed the summary of all the article titles according to category. Those article titles served as the text words where to link the valid URL links of my articles published at Wikinut.
When things done, I started linking those valid URL links of all my articles found at Wikinut site with those article titles or text words.

About the Author - My favorite Saying: "Dream Big and don't stop without giving it a chance to come true." I am a father of 3 for 25+years, OFW for 17 years +, a Blogger, sometimes a Poet, Self-motivated and Professional by experience. You can call me Paul or Pruel. I am friendly animal but can kick you off when it is needed. LOL. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject under the merciless sun. For your inquiries: Send email to: ppruel@gmail.com, ppruel@yahoo.com.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

PhilHealth Letter Regarding Scrap PhilHealth Circular No. 022

The said letter is intended to correct my impression that said circular no. 022 was created by two people. However, instead of rewriting the paragraph found at PhilHealth Circular No. 022 is an Added Burden to The Millions of OFWs Worldwide, I just decided that corrections from PhilHealth should be made available on public.

The paragraph said, "Obviously, the PhilHealth Circular No. 022 was created by two people: Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon and MA. TERESA A. QUIAGIT and approved by them without the approval of other Board Members and other Executive Officers of PhilHealth. It was created on December 15, 2011. The said circular is not only addressed to the 11 million+ OFWs around the world but also to all the Filipinos in Philippines. To read the said Circular No. 022 visit the link PhilHealth Circular No. 022."

I found the letter with good intentions and this article will serve as my acceptance and approval. Above is a scanned copy of the said letter I received on January 30, 2012 at around 12:41PM Saudi Time dated January 27, 2012.

As of this writing there are already 660 Filipinos have joined the petition and yet still very far to 1-M target-ted signatures – so if you are a Filipino living in Philippines and abroad you are hereby invited to join the said petition – go to this link No to PhilHealth Premium Increase Scrap Circular No. 022. And if possible share this call to your family, relatives, friends and friends of friends around the world!

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