This Is Your Amazing Title

January, 2021

You wake up and think to yourself, “I want to write an article,” but you’re lost. You don’t know where to start. And then, you notice you are reading an article about writing articles. It’s a good thing you noticed! See how I started with a story to get you hooked, and now I’m explaining something? This is how you want to start your amazing first article!

(make sure to credit the artist) By Andrijana Bozic from Unsplash.com

Unlike what I am doing here, you probably have something to write about with many important points. When you have an important point, you want people to remember, bold it. Make sure only to use a moderate amount of bold.

If you bold every other word, the bolding loses its impact, and the article might as well not have any of it. You probably don’t notice the bolding that much by this point.

Don’t bold entire sentences either; this has the same effect as not bolding them. Bolding is a powerful tool, but you need to use it right to get its full effect.

Once you're done explaining something, move on to the next thing, and don’t add more unnecessary text, it just wastes everyone's time. People don’t have time to waste. So when you are done, don’t repeat yourself like I am doing here because I am losing your attention. So don’t add any fluffy text that you could remove. If you do, it just sounds repetitive and adds useless text. Make sure to go through your article when you're done, and remove all the fluff text. For example, most of this paragraph that you should stop reading because you get the point. I’m just adding a lot of fluff text because I think it’s funny. But if you want to stop wasting time, stop reading this paragraph and go on to the next one. I don’t know why you are still reading this… Just stop. Go and read the rest of this article. Stop wasting your time. You’re getting bored as you are reading this. Why are you still reading??? I made my point, and if you are still here, I doubt you’ll ever stop.

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Throughout your article, make sure to include images to break things up. When choosing an image, try and find something on the topic. Don’t randomly have a picture of a dog if you are talking about cats.

The pictures you choose also need to be high quality. Unsplash.com is a great website to find them, and it’s where I got all the pictures for this article.

Speaking of breaking things up. Break up your text! If you have an extremely long paragraph, break it up into two. It’s going to be easier for people to read, and they won’t get overwhelmed when they notice you packed an entire novel into one paragraph.

At the same time, though…

Make sure not to break things up too much.

If everything is broken up, it just gets distracting.

You should have at least a few sentences per paragraph.

Or else it just looks like bullet points, without the bullet points.

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You can also use bullet points in articles. Here are some rules for bullet points:

After the list, if there are some bullet points you need to explain, you can go ahead. Bullet points are great, but like a lot of things, you need to use them right. If you don’t have enough items to list, have a paragraph for each. Not in bullet point form.

The last thing in an article is a conclusion. You don’t want your article coming to a sudden stop. Your conclusion should leave people thinking about your article. So when I say, “I hope this article helped you in some way, but I would be surprised if it did,” it stays with you.

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