Where to Get Article Ideas
Just where do article ideas come from? Actually
the inexperienced writer marvels at the variety of subjects a professional writer finds to write about. I and most of the
professionals I know can sit at our desks and think up enough article ideas in an hour to last for the next three months.
In addition everywhere we go article ideas keep popping up.
As you begin to recognize just what magazines
are looking for you too will see article possibilities everywhere. You must develop a nose for news (the ability to sense
what people want to read about). You will train yourself to look at every person every experience and every event with the
idea that here is a possible article some reader will be interested in.
Now lets define what an article idea is. In short
it is merely some subject such as education and some angle that a group of readers might be interested in hearing about.
To show you how this works lets take the subject
of education. Thats not an article idea but a subject--to make it an acceptable magazine idea; you must put an angle on it.
To do this start asking yourself questions.
Are we spending too much money on education today?
Should we pay our teachers more? Just what should we do with the faster-learning student? Is education today anticreative?
Are we giving our children the wrong values? Does education need to get back to basics?
Every angle here is a possible article idea that
some group of readers want to read about. No matter how many questions you ask youll find somebody who would like to know
the answer.
This is all there is to finding an article idea--there
are a lot of other ins and outs of course but you will pick these up as you go along. Lets look at some other subjects.
