Writing Tips Blog

I write a lot about scheduling and taking time for yourself and your family but sometimes there are days when you just gotta work late. When bills need to be paid and deadlines need to be met, some writers have no other choice but to work late when they were rather not be. However, there are some tips and techniques you can try to help you avoid working late too often and to keep those late-night work days from interfering with your health and well-being.

Here are some writer’s scheduling tips:

• plan your day by allotting time for writing and other responsibilities equally
• keep a schedule where you can look at it often on hourly allotments and avoid straying off the schedule
• when the block of time is up for a certain activity or task, skip it and go on to the next one- if not, it throws your whole schedule off
• at the end of the day, review which things got accomplished and which ones didn’t
• this will help you make your schedule for the next day and complete loose ends on projects that didn’t get done in their allotted time
• explain your schedule to others who live and work in the home so that they can respect your work time
• take regular breaks (such as once an hour) to stretch your legs and to tend to things that might need done such as checking on children, feeding pets or watering the houseplants

With these tips, you can create a writer’s schedule that works for your needs and keeps you regularly on task. You will find the need for working late comes less and less often and when it does, you will know how to make it happen effectively and get right back to a regular schedule once more.

One of the most important things you can learn about article writing is to know who you’re writing for. So many new article writers make the mistake of writing for themselves when they should be writing for the reader. It’s all about letting the reader know what they want to know.

They look at your article title as a promise and they are expecting your article to fulfill this promise. Writing for yourself is nice. It can even be therapeutic. But this is the type of writing that stays in your journal or possibly on a blog. It’s not the type of writing that you want in your articles. Instead, you want to write your articles for the reader.

So keep this in mind to help you know who you’re writing for:

• Who is your audience?
• What are you writing about?
• What does your reader want to hear from you?
• What can you teach your reader?
• What secrets do you have to share with your reader?
• What insight can you provide to the reader?

The answers to these questions will help you to discover who you are writing for. Once you know who they are, you keep them in mind constantly while writing and editing your article. When you write for the reader, your articles will be more engaging and this will have a huge impact on the success of your articles. Write for the reader and the reader will return again and again for more.

A recipient of the Top 1000 Contributors award, Ann Olson is a Featured Health Contributor, blogger and freelance health writer currently living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Some of her work has been featured on Answerbag, eHow, and BrightHub.com. She also runs @BestofACHealth on Twitter.com, a twitter dedicated to featuring the best health and wellness content on Associated Content. In her spare time she maintains WritingJobResource.com, a website that provides information about writing online, writing job leads and how to succeed in the fast paced world of online writing.

via Ann Olson’s Contributor Profile – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com.