Arild Nygard

The Internet has a lot of people writing and publishing. Some are very good and give a great value other are more b/s if you like. There is a lot of duplicate content online and I think that is one of the “Bad” sides to this kind of publishing especially if it serves no other purpose that cluttering up the net. I guess most people that do publish online have an idea that anything goes and whatever they write is “Good Stuff” so freedom of speech is really in effect here. Not much I can do about that. There are places like the ever so popular Ezinearticles dot com that do make a great contribution to the net. They have a editing process in place were your article has to be approved before it is posted online. It works very well and the site is great and very popular. Other place can be a subject for discussion and than there is some that are just outright “BAD”. Myself I like to write and have been doing a bit of it over the years. I don’t think I’m a great writer and probably will never be one either but I will still keep on doing it since I’m very passionate about it.

I guess if I would be doing this fulltime it might become better but as I have not gone to that extend yet it simply is what it is. Being a professional writer would be great and I would love to get to that point one day. I think it’s possible for anybody to do so providing they put the time inn for research and practice. Writing as a hobby is ok and having a publishing platform like Blogs makes it easy for anybody to do so. I praised the day I found the Wordpress blogging platform. I have stuck with it and I was fortunate to have a few good pointers from some friends in the beginning and it became easier to get it all going.  Staying at a hobby level of writing is only good if you write for yourself. If you want to progress it has to become professional. It is many ways that you can do this but bottom line is, it takes hard work to get there. The way I see writing is what I call “Writing with the Heart”. I write whatever comes to heart. I just write anything and when I get in the Zone I can write for hours on end. I don’t always publish what I write and I don’t always like what I write but I write anyway. I was once told that I should go back and read what I wrote in the past and maybe do some editing and publishing of some of it. There is probably some good stuff amongst it. I have a regular day job that is not about writing and as long as that is my bread and butter than what you see is what you get. When writing something you always have a heading. The continuation to your heading must reflect that and your article body have to deliver to whatever your heading was saying. Can we do that on everything we write? I guess we have to and I found a way to do just that. Write the heading afterwards. End with the heading or edit the one you have to fit the body. Another thing I thing about writing is that you should write about things that you know about and I don’t mean things that you research in order to have something to write about. What I mean is writing about things that you are interested in and have a real knowledge about. Take for instance your family. You know about them and it should be fairly easy to write about. You don’t have to name specific names on anybody if you don’t want to. You can generalize a lot on that Theme. It can also be a lot of fun. Like a trip down memory lane or something like that. This kind of writing is a good way to start and also a good practice. It teaches you to get flow in you writing and also helps you to open up yourself and I guess it could be a sort of therapy.

I guess I should do what I preach and get on to that one myself.

By writing this little article I have gotten myself into a frame of mind that opened up for some new subjects that I will write about. In closing to this article I would like to say that writing could be fun and also help you become creative. I guess it depends how passionate you are about writing.