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7 Ways Writing an Article Series Will Simplify Your Life

May 28th, 2009 | Author: AnissaW

Writing content can at times feel like such a hassle. With everything else you have to do from day to day, to decide on a topic, do all the research, and then write a clear, concise, thorough post sometimes seems like a task that is somewhere between overwhelming and impossible.
If you get to feeling this way sometimes, I’ve got a great idea for you. Instead of having to take care of each of these steps every day, why don’t you write an article series and see how much easier the task can be.

Really. Writing an article series as opposed to a lot of articles on a variety of topics can make your writing task a lot less stressful. Here are seven ways in which writing an article series can simplify your life.

1. Relieves All the What to Write Next Anxiety – Writing an article series allows you to get more content from fewer topics. By writing an article series you maximize the amount of content you can generate from a single topic and thereby eliminate all the stress of having to come up with a new topic day in and day out.

2. Keeps You From Hiding from the Writing – When you already know what you are going to write about for several days in a row you will be much more willing to jump right into the writing. The article series also prompts you to make sure you get the content written and posted on a regular schedule since those following the series are awaiting the next article.

3. Reduces Your Research Time – When you write a series of several articles all on the same topic it eliminates the number of sources of different information you need to find. Because you don’t have to find a lot of different sources of information your time spent researching can be greatly reduced.

4. Gives You the Opportunity to Say Everything You Want – By writing an article series you can ensure that you have the time to thoroughly discuss or examine a subject. Your readers will love the fact that you present such a detailed view and you won’t have to worry about not being able to make all the points and observations you feel are important.

5. Keeps Individual Articles Concise and Easily Digestible – By spreading everything you want to cover on a particular topic across a series of posts you ensure that each individual post will remain concise. We all know how important it is to keep post word counts down and pose series are one of the best ways to do this while still being thorough on a given topic.

6. Keeps You Motivated – When you first plan out your article series you are giving yourself a goal. Then as you complete each article in the series you get the satisfaction of creeping a little closer to that goal. There is nothing like a sense of accomplishment and tangible signs of progress to keep up the motivation.

7. Ready Made Marketing Materials – You’ve finished your article series and now look at what you have. By taking a topic and breaking it into individual chunks that you can cover in-depth, you have created a great source of information on the topic. Now compile all those pots and put them into an e-book or other marketing materials. You have something ready made you can use in any number of ways to promote your site, product or self.

See what I mean? Writing an article series can eliminate so many of the stresses involved with creating the content your site needs it will make it feel like you are on a holiday.

Ready to start that article series now? Get to it. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.