It is a new year, which means that everyone is busy trying to comply with everything they put on their resolutions for 2011. Whether your main goal is to lose weight, stop smoking or get a new car, you are probably off to an energetic start. I myself stopped listing down my resolutions because, seriously speaking, I rarely got through the entire list. And often gave up by February. But, as an article writer, I have learned that I should concentrate on one thing at a time. Otherwise nothing will ever get done. And most importantly concentrate on that one thing IF you have the calling to do so. Don’t ever push the boundaries, just like you should never force the muse to come.
As most of you may know, I am a career journalist who started doing article writing to make ends meet after losing my job in a major network. It has not been easy, but it has certainly been enlightening. I have learned quite a bit about different online businesses, varying trades and I have developed the marketer I never knew existed in me. Funny I must say, especially since my grade for the advertising section of my communications education was not the best, in fact probably the worst. But, that’s a different article. As an article writer for hire, I have had the opportunity to write about things I always considered boring, lame, or simply irrelevant to my everyday life. Yet, and American Article writer can not shut the doors to making a dollar or to knowledge.
In a year, I have written and learned about car rentals. Go figure, I never realized there was actually so much to renting a car. By doing the research, I was able to travel through Europe in my imagination. Revisit the big apple and remember all the wonderful little restaurants in the SOHO area my husband and I ate at many times. I drove through the Los Angeles smog once again, just to make people understand the importance of renting a car at the right place. It’s bizarre, right? Well, that is part of the beauty of being an article writer for hire. You get to learn while letting your imagination soar. I can guarantee that, with all that I learned I will never be fooled when renting a car again. LOL!!
Then there was sewing and sewing machines. Wow, had someone told me my home economics class in middle school would come in handy in my adult life I certainly would have aced it, not that I performed badly, but I definitely would have been an expert. Thank you Elliot Howe, for inventing the first patent to the sewing machine we know today. NO people, it was not Singer or Brother, sure they have become the big names in sewing machines, but they weren’t the first. That is information I would have disregarded had I not been an article writer for hire. But now I can certainly appreciate how clothes are sewn together and what Howe went through by patenting the first sewing machine design.
By being an American article writer, I can certify the common saying that everyday is a learning process. I have acquired a lot of free knowledge. Actually, now that I think of it, I am paid to gain knowledge. Sure, some subjects are duller than others but I learn a lot nonetheless. This is a new year, a new beginning, and that can be interpreted literally. Yet, as an article writer I like to let my imagination run free and can conclude that a new beginning can mean lots of different things. A bigger understanding of my passion for writing; a new investigation for a special report; the birth of a book; the birth of a child; renovation of vows; a new way to connect with my readers or even a new look. I do not want to set boundaries. Therefore, you shouldn’t either. This is the year to give yourself a facelift, lose the weight, change your wardrobe, and YES give your business the boost it deserves. Take that pen and paper, going back to the good old days of writing can also be a new beginning. Creating ideas on a clean sheet of paper is always a mind refresher. Makes us feel like kids again, at least it does to me. There is nothing better for a writer than going back to scribbled phrases, mumbled words, and catchy lines and great verbatim than seeing it on paper and ink.
It has taken me a few weeks to get away from the chaos of the season and actually sit and write, even though my computer is on for about 18 hours a day. But I think that is perhaps one of the biggest problems. Ever since word processors paved the way for computers, excellent writers have become rarer. We have lost that intimate relationship with pen and paper, the one masters of literature had. Just look back at history, the best article writers, the best journalists, the eminences of literature existed well before technology was invented, Shakespeare, Fleming, Hemingway, Twain and Voltaire, to name but a few.
Let this be a lesson not to me a lone, but to every American article writer that has ever existed. To everyone who can create art with words and who has the utter most respect for the beauty of writing, we should not forget our humble beginnings. If the computer blinds your thoughts or interferes with your imagination, go back to your childhood days and start to doodle on a pad. As Aldous Huxley once said “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” Tah, Tah
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