Creative Writing

I’m quickly learning that you’ve got to be pretty creative when it comes to writing articles. Not because it’s such a competitive field, but because there are times when you’ve got to create many different articles about the same subject. I recent weeks, I’ve been writing articles for an outside source, all based around the same product. To date, I’ve written about 50 articles around a single subject.

This might not sound like a big deal, but when you’ve got a client or website that centers around a single topic, you find that most of what you have to say is repetitive. The trick is to word it in such a way as to make the reader think they’re getting new information, and that takes a lot of creativity. You’ve got to find fresh angles, updated information, and little tidbits of information that makes your article look like new.

The good part about this is that over time you pick up enough information that you can add little details throughout each post and make it seem like a one of a kind. The down side is that you find that most of the information is the same as every other article. But, if you can find a way to merge the two sides together, you can come up with some pretty interesting pieces.

I challenge you to come up with as many titles as you can based around a singular subject. You can choose any topic you’d like, but the challenge is to come up with a specialized topic. For instance, a particular sport or a single celebrity. The narrower your topic, the more creative you have to be. Once you have your topic, see how many ideas you can create around it. You’ll be amazed at what you can do when you really put your mind to it.

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