Write about what you know
Monday, August 11th, 2008A very simple comment , oft repeated , and often ignored by many, myself included. I recently completed 2 sizeable articles in the space of 2 days having deleted all my more ambitious plans to write more adventurous stuff that I wasn’t so sure about. Having decided that I wasn’t going to put into print material I wasn’t confident about, I simply wrote titles for two articles I was confident of , and off I went. Two detailed articles in 2 days. For me this was only possible because the required knowledge was already in my head and all i did was pour it out into words.
I say , write about what you know rather than write about your passions simply because a passion for something does not always equate to a detailed and accurate knowledge of the topic. But if you where to use that passion to fuel your learning of the topic, then one day you could write easily of the topic.
Yes, you will read on many forums of folk writing anything from 3 to 20 articles a day, but perhaps you might want to examine their output before deciding on whether thats the path for you.
For me , an article a day was pretty good going, considering the level of detail and the lenght of the articles. Plus, i only do this part time. Content is important for any website, and useful content, will usually prevail over the dross that fills the web, given time. At least, I hope so.