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Keyword research is an absolutely necessary tool. It gives you the ability to find and research specific search terms which people individually enter into the search engines when performing any sort of search for information, products or services. This is incredibly helpful for optimising websites, because if you can see what people are searching for, then you can quickly set up your site and its content so that the search engines index these specifically chosen keywords. This will tip the scales in your favour when it comes to driving targeted traffic toward your website. It’s not complicated, and there are a few really easy to use applications out there to help you perform this kind of research.

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Previous to attempting to tell you, based on my knowledge, how to build up an effective articles marketing plan – let me try to illustrate why it is imperative that you do so.

Articles in the newspaper, magazines, and expert journals have always been the most efficient way of showing our audience that our insights have value.

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Have you felt your heart pound with fear during horror movies? Did it make you nervous when the slasher was about to stab the lady in the shower? That’s because the writer was controlling you. You can also control your readers in the same method. You can learn to control their heartbeat and the rate at which they read.

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As a creative writer, you must feel the mood you are writing about. As a creative writer, you have to feel the mood. And just how can you do that? You do it by living what you’re writing about.

Let’s suppose you want to write a scene that displays anger. Maybe the tale is about parents arguing, or kid’s leaving home, or an old ex entering the picture. Maybe it’s about a boyfriend breaking up with his girl because she was in bed with his brother. If you have an intense scene, you have to be emotionally prepared to write it. I mean get seriously furious.

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All creative writers are bound to an invisible law of journalism. There is nothing new about a story structure; only the plot is new. These things are laid in stone. But after this lesson, you will see that story structure is far more than the initial breakdown:

· Exposition – the beginning, what the story is about

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When you have finished reading this article, you will have a good idea on how to write believable dialogue and know when you can break the rules.

Effective dialog is essential as a main part of the story. Good dialog moves the story forward whiles it brings life to the characters. Dialog engages readers while you breathe life into your characters.

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Most creative writers are so eager to sell their work that they don’t stop to consider what rights they are selling. The word “Rights” indicates how the buyer can use your work. “Rights” does not refer to anything pertaining to your copyright or what you can get paid for your document.

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Creative writers and journalists sometimes have the problem of smoothly transitioning from one paragraph to the other, especially when they are changing the subject. Learning transition sentences is not hard. By the time you read this article, you will fully understand the trick to it.

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Stories may differ in message, content and characters, but each one is required to have these 16 different elements. When you finish reading this article, you will be equipped with a checklist that you will want to keep.

• The theme weaves the story together, and every story has a theme. This is the thread that weaves seamlessly throughout the story, revealing the general theme.
• It will also have a plot, usually found in the center climax, or perhaps in a series of events.
• All stories have an arc. This is the gradual increase of momentum that builds and builds to the center climax, and then resolves.
• Whether a story moves fast or slow, it will have some rate of speed. Every story will have pacing.
• You may do it formally or informally, but some kind of outlining goes into every story.
• The resolutions at the end of the story sum up the questions raised within.
• Every story must begin with a good hook in the first paragraph, or you won't have a reader to worry about entertaining.
• All stories are told from a point of view; either first person, second person, third person limited or third person omniscient. The latest reports say editors are looking for third person limited.
• Stories always center around the problems that characters have, and how they resolve those problems.
• And, as you know, stories have dialog. The trick is to write dialog that actually sounds natural. Writers who want to learn to write believable dialog must learn to eavesdrop every chance they get.
• The characters in your story will always have physical descriptions, emotional and psychological hoopla, etc.
• It would be challenging to write any story without a little research. The research may be nothing more than defining an insane person, or studying irate parents, etc., but there will always be research.
• A timeline will rise to the surface in every story. Some authors will dwell on the same scene for ages, while others skip ten years in one sentence.
• You will have scenery and settings in every story, and if you're good, you can turn it into imagery.
• And whether you like it or not, every story has verbiage. Out of every 2,500 words, you can cut 300-500 words.
• Analyze the stories and articles you see in magazines; every one of them will have Show, Don't Tell. If I told you what show, don't tell is, I would only be telling and not showing since this article is too long already. I'll save that for some other time.

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