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As I see it there are three important factors when it comes to keywords in article marketing. First factor is your competition for the keyword, second is the keyword density on your page. Keyword density is the same as how many times your main keyword is repeated in your article. A new and important factor is latent semantic keywords. This means keywords that are related to your main keyword. Include these factors in your articles and watch the traffic grow.

The level of keyword competition is how many competitive websites are using the same keyword as you want to rank for. If you go to Google and search for your keyword using “keyword” you will see how many websites are competing for that word. As an example you can try comparing “how to remove scar tissue” with how to remove scar tissue without the “ “’s. The number of results with “ “ is your competition on that keyword in Google.

When you decide to go for a keyword, aim for a keyword with less than 5000 results. The more results, the harder it is to rank for it. You should also check how many on the fist page of your results is using your keyword in their headline and what the Google Page Rank is for the top 5 results. If your competitors have a page rank higher than 4 or 5, I suggest you try a different variation of that keyword.

When you write your articles it is important to use your keyword in the headline of your article. You should also use your keyword early in your article as well as two or three times more down in the text. It is also a good tip to have your keyword close to the ending of your article.

Many talk about keyword density in terms of percent. I do not like that way of measuring it, but instead focus on placing my keywords strategically a couple of time down the article. The worst thing you can do is to overdo it. This will tell the search engines that you are trying to fool them. Just keep the text natural and focused on your subject and the keyword density in your article will come naturally.

Latent semantic keywords are a new term that has grown important the last years. Latent semantic keywords in articles mean words that are related to your keyword and the team of your article. When you are writing about dog training the search engines will look for keywords in your articles that are related to dog training.

As an example of latent semantic dog training keywords you have, sit, bark, treat, leach, aggressive, dog, training dogs, mans best friend, discipline, dog food, healthy dog, and similar. Google or other search engines will look into their database to see what words are typically used in all the different articles about dog training. They will then expect to see more of those keywords in your article.

Still the most important factor when writing articles is to focus on the reader. If you stick to the theme of your headline the latent semantic keywords and the keyword density for your main keyword will come almost natural.

Also remember that it is more important that those who read your articles find it interesting than it is to get it ranked high in the search engines. Still those factors often go hand in hand in the long term.

If you want to learn more about improving your articles to gain more readers and more exposure I will recommend that you visit my website at: article-marketing-secrets.blogspot.com/ article-marketing-secrets.blogspot.com

In Part One of this series, I mentioned briefly the importance of knowing the markets to which you submit. If you are an aspiring romance novelist sending your work to a publisher where the bread and butter is paid for by hard science fiction, chances are you are not going to have much luck.

As the publisher for the romance imprint of a small press, I can tell you right now that if a query letter and synopsis doesn’t remotely fit our guidelines, chances are the time I′ll devote to reading the actual work will be wasted. In an industry where time is constantly of the essence - evaluating stories, meeting deadlines - mine is too precious to give to an author who isn’t certain where his or her work belongs. Other the other side of the coin, an author who submits incorrectly will waste time wondering and worrying about the fate of the book. Therefore, it is strongly advised that, as an author, you do your homework and save us both the anxiety.

This next installment covers a similar topic, where the author does have a grasp on the market but not a tight one.

2) But they do have sex…on page 600.

The romance genre of fiction is likely one of the most diverse in all of commercial fiction. Romance can be crossed with just about any other genre imaginable, from science fiction to historicals, mystery to fantasy. There are romance imprints that cater to the African-American market, gay and lesbian readers, and fans of vampires and various undead. Between the top New York publishers and the smaller eBook publishers where followings continue to grow, it is estimated that several hundred romance novels are published each month.

My realm is a growing sub-genre in e-dom: erotic romance. Here the sex just melts right off the keyboard. Naughty words are used to describe naughty bits, and depending upon the heat level and flamboyance of the author you could be reading literally 200 pages of pure unadulturated whoopie. How is this not porn. Well, that depends upon one’s definition of pornography, but I can tell you we classify porn as endless strings of explicit sex scenes presented without benefit of plot. We see erotic romance as a story enhanced by its eroticism, but not wholly defined by it. Most romances have the HEA (happily ever after) ending, and in our cases if the story can stand up without the sex it is well worth a look.

Of course, there must be sex, and lots of it. When a reader buys a work labeled as erotic romance, it is to be expected that the hero and heroine are going to get it one, and rather quickly. In a chair, on the stairs, on a boat in a moat, in Terre Haute…in every position that doesn’t cause leg cramps. There are times, however, I will receive a wonderful love story for one of our lines that is passionate and warm and does contain sex, just not enough to satisfy my readers. This leads us to item number two on our list: KNOW THE GENRE.

If you are interested in a specific genre where your writing is concerned, know the basics of that genre. If you want to write erotic romance, know the proper elements involved. Read the erotic romances being published by the top print publishers and eBook houses - Kensington’s Aprhodosia, Harlequin’s Spice, etc. If you are interested in mystery, read up on the top sellers and know the fundamentals of a good story - conflict, clues, resolution. A book touted as erotic romance that contains only one graphic sex scene in 200 printable pages will not suit the Aprhodosia’s of the world, nor will a whodunnit where nobody really knows “who” work for the top mystery publisher.

This may sound like preaching to the choir, but I wouldn’t advise this if I didn’t receive works that didn’t suit our genre. To write the genre is to know the genre, to read the genre, and to know what the publisher wants.

Kathryn Lively is publisher of Phaze,

FORWARD

The 188 stage Hero’s Journey (Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters. This is the template you must master if you are to succeed in the craft.

[The terminology is most often metaphoric and applies to all successful stories and screenplays, from The Godfather (1972) to Brokeback Mountain (2006) to Annie Hall (1977) to Lord of the Rings (2003) to Drugstore Cowboy (1989) to Thelma and Louise (1991) to Apocaplyse Now (1979)].

THERE IS ONLY ONE STORY

THE 188 STAGE HERO’S JOURNEY:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharses, of which there are usually four).

d) Tells you what to write. For example, at a certain stage of the story, the focus should be on the Call to Adventure and the micro elements within.

ABRIDGED TIPS, EXCERPTS AND EXAMPLES:

(simply go to heros-journey.info/ heros-journey.info/ for full details)

***Leaving the Old Self Behind***

One critical aspect of the Hero’s Journey is the leavnig behind of the Old Self. This often starts when the Hero is pushed from the Ordinary World to the Edge of the Ordinary World. In Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Joanne leaves Ted, but tells him “she doesn’t love him anymore.”

Learn more…

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You have developed a plot, setting and have even come up the main characters for your latest story. You start to write, but it isn’t long before your come to a road block. It’s not the storyline after all you know where you’re headed. It’s not the setting; you mapped that out before the first word was committed to paper.

No, the thing that you are missing is the perfect name for you characters. You have a couple of throw away names you are using, but you know the names just don’t fit the characters in question.

So how do you come up with the perfect name for your characters?

Simply put, this becomes a matter of personal preference that is often left up to the most unusual reasoning.

There are some colleagues of mine who may go back to their formative years and simply chose the name of friend or foe based on the personality of the character and assign a derivative of a real persons name to the character in question.

Others have made liberal use of a thesaurus and found a character trait that best defines their hero and unearth other words that are similar. They then incorporate that word into the name of their character.

Some simply come up with the first name that comes to mind and live with it.

There are those occasions when a character’s name was the very first thing an author came up with. The name was so perfect the story developed from this unusual source.

You can even find some writers who are much more scientific in their quest to discover a perfect name for their characters. This group will consult a time honored book in search of a name that will set their character apart.

This particular method is foolproof. I can promise you that you will find a name for your character. The truth is this particular method is one I routinely use; the phone book.

I have used the “close your eyes and stab your finger at the first name you come across” method. I’ve also looked through to find a unique and highly readable last name and then couple it with a first name that fits the character. The benefit of using this method is that there are many names to choose from and there are some very unique choices.

Next time you are stuck trying to figure out a name for a fictional character just pick up the phone book and let your fingers do the walking.

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For many people one of retirement’s biggest hurdles is not what they’re going to do afterwards but what they’re expected to do on the way. The part of the rite of passage causing all the anxiety is the dreaded retirement speech.

Understandably, most people want to say something of value. They would like to be warm, witty and wise. The fear is they’ll be the opposite. They’ll stutter around, mutter a few clichés, and forgetting whom they wanted to honor or thank stumble off the stage.

That image is so awful the search begins for a free retirement speech: a pre-prepared template. The thinking goes along the lines of: ‘once I weave in my personal details nobody will know the difference.’ Then all they’ll have to do is print it off and deliver.

What they don’t realize is individualizing a speech is going to take time just as it’s going to take time to find a suitable ready-made template in the first place.

So if you don’t want to pay a professional speechwriter to craft a unique speech, then the solution is to spend the time you would ferreting for a flexible freebie, writing your own.

The keys to writing the retirement speech you’ll be proud to deliver are straightforward.

Give yourself time. Don’t do a last minute rush.


Collect your ideas together. You may wish to use these headings as starting points. Put down as much as you can under each. Do not self- edit. Let the ideas flow. You will trim, add or delete later.


I remember…

Colleagues…

Tributes…

Milestones…

Anecdotes…

The future…

Philosophy…

This is your raw material. Once you have it, you’re ready for the next step: preparing to shape it in order to write your speech.

Before you begin the actual writing consider:

How long the speech is expected to be. Is it the standard 3-5 minutes or more?


Where is the speech to take place? This will help you decide tone: informal or formal, light or solemn.


What is the theme or main underlying idea you want running through your speech to unite it?


Do you want to use quotations at the beginning or end of it? If you do, you’ll find < a href=” write-out-loud.com/retirement-quotations.html”>a retirement themed collection here ready for your use.

And now you are ready to write.

Go back through your notes, selecting what you want to suit the theme you’ve chosen. You’ll need an opening (setting the tone and introducing your theme), a middle (expanding your theme with, depending on the time allowance, 2-3 main points and examples) and a conclusion which generally summarizes and reinforces your opening idea/theme.

When writing, ‘write out-loud’. That is write as though you are talking to a respected friend. Use your natural vocabulary and speech rhythms. This will guarantee the speech fits you well. Your audience will know when they hear it; it comes from you and nobody else.

Once you’ve done the first draft, read it aloud. Listen carefully, making sure the ideas follow sequentially, the tone is appropriate and that it fits the time allocated. A good idea is to try it out on a friend for feedback. Another pair of ears will pick up impossible leaps of logic needing transitions to make sense or omissions such as people you’ve inadvertently forgotten to include.

When you’re satisfied make a final copy. If you intend to read it, use a large clear font. If you are going to use cue cards write clearly and use one per main idea. Number them for safety.

Before delivering your speech, allow yourself time for at least three rehearsals. This will ensure you know the flow and be able to speak with confidence.

Go well. Retire with aplomb.

For more about writing & rehearsing retirement speeches go to write-out-loud.com write-out-loud.com You’ll even find a helpful sample, not to use as a template but to give you ideas!

I get an email at least once a week from aspiring copywriters seeking advice on how to get a foothold in the industry. It’s obviously a popular topic, so I thought I’d put some of the more common questions and answers on paper in the hopes that it might provide a bit of an insight.

Q: What does a copywriter do in a typical day?

A: This question is very comprehensively answered in divinewrite.com/adayinthelifeof.htm , to summarize, copywriters do some or all of the following:

meet with prospective clients (”prospects”) or talk with them on the phone to sell your services to them (freelancers only)
liaise with clients to take a brief (learn what the client needs from the copy, who the audience is, what benefits the client offers their customers, etc.)
research the subject matter
plan the structure and approach of the writing
write the piece
liaise with the client through the review process (the client reviews the work and the copywriter fixes whatever needs fixing - so long as it’s not out of scope, e.g. a new requirement)
get the client to sign off (approve) the job
invoice the client (freelancers only)
chase payment of invoice (freelancers only)
process the payment using an accounts package (freelancers only)
keep detailed records of all correspondence and activities throughout the process
manage the business (freelancers only - including manage your IT systems, accounting, create and maintain a website, create advertising materials, writing proposals, generate a search engine ranking, maintain a database of contacts, etc.)

Q: What are the working conditions like?

A: Most copywriters work either for themselves (”freelancing”) or for advertising or web design agencies (”employees”). Freelancers tend to work from home, but may sometimes work at the client’s workplace. Employees almost always work at the client’s workplace. Conditions for freelancers tend to be pretty relaxed (they′re at home, after all!!!). I haven′t worked at an agency, but I suspect things are a little different there.

Q: What is the pay like?

A: I’ve heard of freelance copywriters being paid by the article at a rate of USD $12 per 600 word article (seems ridiculous to me!). I believe these people were college students looking for a way into the copywriting industry. At the other end of the spectrum, talented freelancers who treat writing as a serious business can earn in excess of USD $100,000 per year. I think that agency copywriters tend to earn somewhere in between these figures, maybe averaging between USD $35,000 - $70,000.

Q: What skills do I need?

A: A copywriter needs to be able to write very well in many different styles (from short 1-2 line ads through to long 3000 word articles). They also need to be able to adapt to heaps of different subjects (from IT to kitchen surfaces to accounting to nutritional supplements to cars). They need to be organized and hard-working, with an eye for detail and an understanding of writing for different media (website, brochures, radio, TV, etc.). Freelancers need good business sense, an understanding of search engines, some ability with IT systems, and patience. They also need to accept that they’re gonna be poor for the first 2 years!

Q: What education do I need?

A: Formal education never hurts, and often helps. But it’s no guarantee of success. If a copywriter has all of the above skills, they won’t need formal training in writing. Also, in my humble opinion, you can’t train to become a writer; you’re either a writer or you’re not. Training can sharpen certain skills, and teach new styles, etc., but if you don’t have ‘the flow’ when you start the course, it’s unlikely you’ll have it when you finish.

Q: Do I need a website?

A: Yes! The best place for any freelance advertising copywriter or website copywriter to start is to fork out for a website. A website is invaluable because when you cold call and email prospects, you’ll need to direct them somewhere that gives them more information.

Q: What should I include on my website?

A: Keep it simple, include a portfolio page, add any samples of any sort of copywriting you’ve done, talk about the places you’ve worked, the clients you’ve written for, and include any testimonials you’ve received. Make sure you include your address and contact details as well, so people don’t think you’re a fly-by-night operation. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to include a photo either. If you can’t say much about your experience, don’t say much. It doesn’t even really matter if you don’t say anything. Remember, just like any other form of advertising copywriting, writing about yourself requires the art of subtlety. If you lack experience, but you’re confident you can do the job, you can be very clever in what you don’t say, and most people will read it the way you intended.

Q: Should I target agencies?

A: If you’ve never worked as an advertising copywriter or website copywriter before, don’t target advertising agencies and web design agencies. They know exactly what they’re after, so if you don’t have a portfolio, you won’t stand a chance. Target end-clients directly.

Q: Should I cold call?

A: Yes. One of the best ways of generating business in the early days is to cold call potential end-clients. It’s hard work and very time consuming, but you can generate some very qualified leads. For more information on cold calling, take a look at divinewrite.com/coldcallingcopywriter.htm .

Q: Should I write samples?

A: Yes. If you’re targeting specific clients or industries, don’t be afraid to write a few samples and send them through. You can offer the pieces free of charge (everyone likes something for nothing) or at a discount, or you can use it as an incentive to sign them up for future work. It all depends on the type of work and the type of client. The important thing to remember is that samples are virtually as good as a portfolio to most prospective clients.

Q: Do I need an accounts package?

A: Yes! Don’t be fooled into thinking you can handle your accounts manually (or with Microsoft Excel). Even if you only have a few clients, you NEED a proper accounts package like MYOB or Quicken (they both offer small business versions). You’ll understand why the first time you do your GST reports or annual taxes. In fact, you’ll understand why whenever you need to chase down outstanding invoices.

Glenn Murray is an divinewrite.com SEO copywriter and articlepr.com article submission and article PR specialist. He is a director of article PR company, Article PR, and also of divinewrite.com copywriting studio Divine Write. He can be contacted on Sydney 612 4334 6222 or at mailto:glenn@divinewrite.com glenn@divinewrite.com. Visit DivineWrite.com or ArticlePR.com for further details, more FREE articles, or to download his FREE SEO e-book.

As a marketer, you should be focused on one and only one thing. Not your company, not your product, but on filling your customer’s needs. You have to start out with a clear perception of who your target customer is (the more details you know, the better); what his or her needs are, and how your product or service fills that need better than any other.

99% of us still feel like voices crying in the wilderness. Why isn’t anyone listening to you? Because first you need to learn how to listen to others.

There is a listening/learning process that you go through; once you understand that, the doors start opening, and the ears start listening.

Here is what I’ve learned about listening patterns. We are all life-long learners, gurus and newbies alike. It’s a level playing field, or, as I like to picture as I’m standing before a crowded room full of affiliate marketers, ready to make a speech, we’re all naked under our clothes. We listen to people that we admire, and then try to make their wisdom our own. How do they gain our admiration? They ask for our questions, our feedback, our own stories, and use the information to determine how we feel. They understand us. They convey this understanding TO us.

They are then able to step into our perspectives and serve us better. That is how great advertising copy is born. But there is another use for this dialog.

I tried this in an online conference marketing seminar recently. There were about 50 people in the room, some of them well-known marketing “experts”, others, by their questions, were obviously beginners. I had recently begun a new marketing campaign and so far I had no sales/feedback and few visitors. I began the conversation with two open-ended questions, ones that I hoped would generate ideas, applause, medals of honor, and so on.

The questions I asked were, “I’ve recently begun an ad campaign for an ebook I’ve written, using a free report as promotion. I’ve advertised my salespage in forums and safelists, and I’ve started advertising in ezines. I haven′t been getting much response yet, is there another way that any of you have tried to promote this sort of thing? What do you think would happen if I changed the headline of my salespage to read ” xxxx”?

The first thing that happened was, the moderator asked me to show everyone the url of the salespage. So right off the hop, I got 50 or so visitors to my salespage. Then I got various comments, ranging from “excellent page!”, “great strategy!” to a whole list of possible changes. I then got a list of other ways to promote my ebook and free report.

I have to admit, most of these ideas were not new to me, but even one new idea is greatly appreciated. I learned a lot about how valuable my product is and how I could add even more value to it. Also, all those people visited my page, some of them bookmarked it (because my stats show that they have returned), and I got three sales that very night.

Most importantly, I gained respect from every person in that room because I listened to them.

I’ve taken this lesson and now apply it to everything I do. It’s hard to get feedback from people, but there’s nothing like actively listening to build a relationship, which builds trust, which then builds communication and, ultimately, sales. Used in forums, conference rooms, phone calls and face to face communication, active listening goes one step beyond simply hearing, and engages the attention of the other person.

Kathryn Beach is ready to listen to you, and move your business to a new level. Her website and newsletter offer tips and tools that no internet marketer should be without. 7affiliatecentral.com Affiliate Marketing Tips

If you’re a new and yet-to-be-published writers, chances are you’ve been tempted by magazine ads promising “Get Published Now!” or “We’ll help you self-publish!” Maybe you’ve submitted material to traditional publishers and received rejection letters, and in frustration you’ve thought, “Maybe I should just self-publish.”

But where do you begin? A quick search on the web reveals a bewildering array of self-publishing options. How many are legitimate? How many are rip-offs? And how can you tell?

Let’s look at what publishing, self-publishing, and subsidy publishing actually mean.

Traditional Publishing

It its broadest sense, the verb “to publish” means “to make public.” By this definition, “publishing” can be anything from a printed book between two covers to a notice pinned up on a supermarket bulletin board. Blogs, web pages, newsletters, and self-printed pamphlets are all forms of publishing.

When we speak of “traditional″ publishing, we refer to companies that buy the rights to make selected works public. A traditional publisher, whether small or large, will select the best work out of many submissions, draw up a contract with the author, take out a copyright in the author’s name, and pay the author for various rights, including first publication rights. The publisher makes the entire monetary investment, as well as taking all the monetary risk, and recoups that investment from book sales. The author may be paid an “advance,” which is an “advance against royalties.” Once the advance is earned back, the author receives any additional royalties from further book sales.

In order to succeed in the competitive world of book sales, the publisher must be highly selective about the books it choses to publish. No one can predict actual book sales, and the industry is sometimes taken by surprise by a book that suddenly soars to the top of the best-seller list (or that plunges far below expectations). Nevertheless, a publishing company cannot afford to take risks on books that it believes are unlikely to sell.

This is why so few of the manuscripts that are submitted to a traditional publisher are accepted. Each publisher receives thousands of manuscripts per year. A large number of these are unpublishable in some way: poorly written, inappropriate for that publisher, even illegible. A small number are publishable, and only some of these can be accepted, since the publisher has only so many slots in the year’s publishing schedule. In order to be accepted, the manuscript must have good sales appeal, must fill a need for the publisher, must be well-written, and should be presented professionally.

Self-publishing

Authors who self-publish bypass traditional publishers by creating their own small publishing company. The author makes all the monetary investments and takes all the monetary risks, but keeps all the profits.

In order to self-publish a book, an author must find a good printing service that produces high-quality books. In these days of Publish On Demand (POD), finding a good, affordable service that produces a quality product is becoming increasingly difficult, as more service use POD equipment that may or may not produce quality books. Before investing in a POD service, it’s always wise to obtain a sample copy.

The self-published author files for copyright, obtains a Library of Congress number, and pays for an ISBN number and bar code. While the latter is not absolutely necessary if one plans to sell locally, it is necessary if the author wishes to sell books through online bookstores and through book distributors.

Copyright is obtained through the

I can’t imagine that there’s a regular among us who doesn’t want to write great articles. And by constantly sharing writing techniques that we know to be valid, we’ll all become even stronger with our writing and our articles will, over time, approach greatness. (Which is why I like it in here so much!)

Okay, let’s get to a juicy piece of learning that will definitely help your articles and find out how jury duty could possibly help anyone do anything.

Many writers, especially those who are new to the game, get into the habit of finding comfortable formats for their writing. Four sentences per paragraph. Three sentences per…you get it. Similarity.

The problem is: while this may be their comfort zone, one format is NOT how people read comfortably. And more importantly, it’s not how people ‘hear’ writing.

When people speak, they start and they stop. They have long winded moments. They say something small. They have a medium amount to say…then they say next to nothing and MEAN a lot.

In essence vary their ‘copy.’ And you can take great writing clues from this varying of copy.

It’s very easy to know if you fall into this group. Just bring up your articles on your screen and if they all LOOK the same, without getting into the content, then you’ll need to make an adjustment.

If you REALLY want to know how people speak, get yourself JURY DUTY. Yes, dreaded jury duty will clue you in as to EXACTLY how people ‘vary their copy.’ Once you sit in that jury room with your cold coffee you′ll have access to the court transcripts. This is where you′ll see for yourself how people REALLY SPEAK and how people really listen. You will see in a flash just how varied people’s speeds are of their ‘copy.’

In fact, many new copywriters that I have taught are given jury transcripts as a way of making them well aware of how people REALLY speak and how their readers really ‘hear’ that copy. It has a tremendous effect on the honesty of their copy.

So a great way to continue to find ways to write great articles is to vary your copy speeds. Sure, get into it for a paragraph or two, but then give yourself much needed relief. Follow up long paragraphs with very small little ones. Then follow two short ones with a medium length one.

It works.

Not only does this make your copy easier to read (it does) but it more accurately approximates the way people listen to the written word.

Enjoy.

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Poems. Just the mention of them makes me smile. Why? Simple. I delight in writing and reading poetry.

Some tend to think that to be a poet is not easy and that it must be those deep thinkers who can write poems.

Actually all of us can be poets if we have creativity. After all poems are creations of our minds and our experiences.

If you are still clueless and you think that you can never write a single poem, below are some inspiring tips to awake the poet in you:

1. Read

Read other poets work and observe how they write. You don′t have to read heavy stuff as there are also writers who write simple and easy-to-understand poems. Start with simple ones to get into the flow of poetry.

2. Poetry Class

Is there any poetry writing classes in your university or any other institutions? It will be a good idea to join the class and learn about the basics of writing poetry as most beginners start this way.

3. Talk with Poets

Is there anybody whom you know is a poet? Speak to them and ask them how did they start writing poems. They will be glad to share with you their experiences. By doing this you will be getting valuable information from an expert and you can learn from their experiences.

4. Write

If you don′t try you will never know so the next best thing to do is to pen a poem yourself. It could be long or short but start working on the poems. You could also keep a journal for your poems.

5. Contests

There are many poetry contests both in magazines & in portals. Take part and submit your poems. Once again this step is to encourage and motivate yourself to write poems.

6. Get Feedback

After writing the poems get a friend or better still a poet to give you feedback on your work. Ask them if they like it and if they don’t ask them why. By doing this you will be able to know how well your poems are able to communicate with others.

Like I said writing poems is a form of communication. It all depends on the writer and his or her emotions and thoughts. But one key thing which pushes all us poets is the passion for writing them. So get creative and start penning those hidden poems!

About The Author

Anusuya Veth is a creative writer and poet. She got nominated to ‘The International Who’s Who in Poetry’ (May 2004). Her poems have been published in poetry.com″ target=”_new poetry.com. You can also download her free special poetry collection ebook at geocities.com/cupidtraps” target=”_new geocities.com/cupidtraps

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