Learning to write is very important today. The internet is setting the pace in this new information age and writing is one of the best ways to communicate online and in many other settings. Your children learn to write by writing so you need to create a writing atmosphere in your home. Here are 6 tips to help you get started. 1. Inspiration. First you need to inspire your children with a desire to write. You can show them old letters. If you keep a journal then you can show them entries you have made in the past. This really gets their creative juices flowing. 2. Writing challenge. One day I challenged my kids to write a 400 word article on any subject they wanted. It was great. They turned the television off a started writing. I told them that I would give the winner for the best article $10. You can try something like this and your children will amaze you. 3. Create a blog. Blogging is extremely popular and you can get started for free. Blogger.com is a great resource. Your blog can be about anything but consider choosing a subject your whole family is interested in. You and your children can then write and post articles about your subject. Then you and your children can spread the word to friends and family. You can even monetize your blog which will really get your children interested. 4. Give your children a notebook. A notebook is a necessity for any good writer so they can quickly jot down ideas as they come. They can also start composing stories in their notebooks that can later be transferred to the computer. 5. Have your kids learn to write thank you notes. You and others give your children many gifts and sometimes it is hard to just get your children to say thank you. Can you imagine the joy that will fill someone's heart if they receive a thank you note from one of your children for a gift or special outing? 6. Write letters. Writing letters is a habit we should all have. You can help you children develop a love for writing by encouraging them to write letters to grandparents and friends. They can even write letters to you complete with postage and an address. I have sent my children mail before and it is very fun. Teaching children to write first requires that you inspire your kids. Show them how much fun writing can be. Next teach them activities where they can see the many benefits of writing.
If you are not accustomed to writing, you probably think you would not be able to write worthwhile articles for publication. If you are really unable to write your own articles, you could employ a ghost writer to write articles to order or you could invest in PLR (Private Label Rights) articles. Having articles ghost-written to your order is the better solution but can be expensive.
If your budget won't stretch to hiring a ghost-writer, buying good PLR articles would be your only real option. There are two points to note here:
1. They must be good PLR articles, the more expensive kind which are sold on a limited edition basis. Don't waste your money on cheap PLR articles that are offered for sale to thousands of people and which read as if they had been written by a drunken foreigner.
2. PLR articles should not be used just as they come, they should be re-written to at least some extent (25% change to the content at the minimum, although more is better) but, of course, if you don't want to do any writing at all, this is not really going to be the answer for you.
It is far better to learn how to write articles, and I believe almost anyone with normal literacy skills should be capable of producing good articles with a little effort and some practice.
Why do people assume they can't write articles? The main reason is that writing articles is an alien activity for most people once they have left school or university. Most of us never have to write anything longer than a text message or a greeting in a birthday card, and writing articles is a skill we have to learn from scratch. This is where younger people (particularly students) have the advantage: they are quite used to essay writing for school or college, so they can easily adapt to writing articles.
If you are up for the challenge of learning how to write articles, there is no shortage of resources to help you: just doing a simple search online will locate numerous articles on the subject of writing in general and writing ezine articles in particular. You can also download (free of charge) my book, Ezine Article Writing - 10 Steps To Success, from my website. You can work through all 10 steps at your own speed but, first of all, I would recommend studying the chapter about how to structure an ezine article. Once you understand how to structure an article, and have completed your first article, becoming proficient at article writing is just a matter of practicing.
The hardest article you will ever have to write is article number one, after that it gets easier with every article you write.
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