Tall tales & article writing

There’s a family member near and dear to me-who is
very charming, very generous, very creative and fun.

Yet she has this habit of telling long winded stories
about herself.  The same old tales…repeatedly.

She is not old and forgetful-so I wouldn’t call it
absence of memory.

These stories are meant to convey an image she wants
to project.  Perhaps to compensate for a painful
childhood.

Stuff about hob-nobbing with Bavarian aristocracy,
almost getting adopted by Connecticut
socialites…flying down to Bermuda as a 12 year old
and singing for government officials.

I couldn’t put my finger on why these stories made
me itchy-beyond the fact that they’re fiction
posing as truth.

Until the other day when I realized I heard the
Bavarian one for the 3rd time.

It got me to thinking about the art of story
telling-and what constitutes a good story.

I’m particularly interested because articles are a
form of storytelling.

Submission sites like Ezine reject articles all the
time for not sounding authentic.

So here’s a list of things to think about when
constructing an article:

- What’s in it for the reader? A good
story/article strikes a balance between entertainment
and imparting valuable information.  If you write an
article with the sole intent to sell yourself-readers
will be turned off.

- Be credible. Don’t try to pass fiction off as
fact.  Use real life examples-real people, places,
and situations. Make-believe scenarios are only ok if
you want to illustrate a point and can’t draw upon a
real life experience.

- Be considerate of a reader’s time. Inexperienced
article writers, in particular, tend to go on too long.
If you load your articles with too much detail you
will lose your audience. An article should be edited at
least 3 times to cut out unnecessary words.

- Keep it fresh and original.  As illustrated
earlier…telling the same story over and over again
becomes old fast. If you want to use the same story,
look for different angles-for example, instead of
talking about Bavarian aristocracy-you might want to
talk about heating problems in old German castles.

That last bit was an attempt at humor on my
part..haha.

But you get the point. The audience should always
come first when it comes to storytelling.

When you have a tool that helps you spin articles into
original content-it’s even better-

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Just imagine…no more poring through a thesaurus to
find just the right word.

I used to waste precious hours doing that,  ugh!  Now
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Talking about rejection…why risk getting banned
from search engines by duplicating the same old
content?

You want to rank number one on Google-not get tossed
out of the way.

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priority for you?

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