You can generate over 2000 article ideas by...
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For many writers, the will to write and the knowledge necessary to execute upon that will are not a problem. Your mind and life are a veritable gold mine of material for making an income. However, determining an angle to take in approaching this gold mine for profitable extraction may prove difficult. To approach this problem, one need only to revisit their school aged days.
Try to remember back to your first lessons in essay writing. Teachers taught students to develop outlines of their work before they proceeded in writing their papers, so as to ensure a certain level of thought organization in their work. This concept was furthered as you learned the process of effective note taking from massive, over-priced textbooks. The idea is to take larger ideas and break them down into smaller ones, compartmentalizing the information into easier to digest chunks.
Next time you find yourself struggling to come up with a topic, or perhaps more accurately, find yourself struggling with where to start with your information, try applying these school aged concepts to your brainstorming. Start by making a list of the general topics you are knowledgeable about. Under each topic, break the idea into sub-categories. Keep breaking down the ideas until they cannot be broken down any further. After that, apply generic title lead ins to the smallest categories.
For example, say you know a whole lot about cats. Your initial topic areas might be breeds, care, and problems. Let's look at the care topic. Under here, sub-categories might include veterinary care, food, grooming and training. Under veterinary care, you might have sub-categories that include spaying/neutering, fleas, worms, shots, claws, and cancers. Under shots, you may be able to talk about Calici Virus, Chlamydia, Feline Leukemia, FIP, Panleukopenia, Rabies, and Viral rhinotracheitis. Generic lead ins for each may be advantages, disadvantages, costs, history and use.
Bear with me for a moment. That means for this one small sub-category, there are five generic lead ins for seven areas. That's 35 articles. Assuming these above numbers are average (and in my experience, this is a low ball number), that means that in this one, small area of expertise, you could theoretically generate 2520 articles from about cats.
It took me five minutes to outline this little bit of information out. And I know NOTHING about cats. Imagine if I did know a lot about cats. It would not be implausible for my list making to generate over 5000 possible articles, all from the power of outlining. Not bad, huh?
This is just one of many approaches to article content brainstorming. How do you generate your content ideas?
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