Top 10 Reasons Why You Have to Nurture Your Skill in Writing

How do you define writing in your own words? If you are asked to rate writing as an important factor of being you from 1 to 10, would you pick up 8, 9, or 10? Do you consider it of value anyway? If you do, let's together nurture that gift.

As a growing person, writing can be define differently compared to the one we used to know when we still in grade school. Writing is not just about composing simple sentences this time, aiming to follow the basic subject and verb agreement. Writing is about giving our imagination a concrete form. The Richness of our ideas can acquire much value if it will be presented in a well-written language.

Well, based on my appreciation to writing, an innate skill that empowers me, I will share to you Top 10 Reasons why you have and need to nurture this precious skill like what I do.

Top 10 Reasons:

• Writing expresses yourself. Writing can give you an identity that no one can take away from you. Can you enumerate writers that are well noted with their great compositions? If you are using your wit through speaking, try another medium, write it and it can be put in a good use.
• Writing is a bank established enough for your vocabulary. We are oblivious, sadly, that makes us human. Do not be confident enough that you can hold and store as much as information you want, I believe that our brain works like a computer, it would crash down anytime if you are going to overuse it. What to do? Make a back-up as early as now. In other words, invest it in an established bank. Deposit your ideas by turning them into words. Starting a blog would be one of the best thing you can do.
• Writing is a way to help others in a bigger scope. If you have decided to write a blog about the richness of your ideas, you are extending your generosity to the whole world. Imagine how many people you can reach out 24/7? Your blog and writing is an established bank, and the World Wide Web acts as the central bank. If you share informative and helpful contents, you are helping the web to become even rich and powerful. If you are writing quality contents, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines would proudly recommend you to people. Helping others will just give you a very satisfying feeling--an achievement.
• Writing gives you a feeling of a priceless achievement. What do you feel when you know that many people are happy and thankful to you? What do you feel when you know that there are few hundreds of readers regularly visiting and scanning your written topics for information as guide for their daily activities? Wow! You just don't express yourself, but you came out to be a helping hand.
• Make real friends along the way and expand your knowledge through them. Writing and blogging is a give and take situation. It is a win-win approach. Why? You make real friends out there. You would find a true circle of people who value things like you do. If you feel that you do not belong to the people around you, make a bridge, walk miles away using your wit and writing fluency. Exchange ideas from different people you know you can be with and learn from them. At first, you need your writing skill in helping them, but unknowingly, it help you learn more. Indeed, blogging is learning.
• Writing make you wiser. Wise people speak about ideas. They are like birds hungry for worms, and everyday, they would fly to feed themselves. Wise people are like ants, they are hard working enough to look for foods before the rain would wash them away. Are you like birds and ants? In a matter of time, they will become clever, and they would know when scarcity knocks their doors. How about us people? Well, use what it is in you. Train yourself, practice makes one perfect! Guys, make a testament of how intellectual you are.
• Make the world a better place through your words. It's about spreading the good news. Who among you know Dr. Jose Rizal? He had changed the course of the Philippine History because of his wisdom transformed into powerful and awakening compositions. He had never used sword to fight against enemies, because he got a weapon powerful enough to win the battle. Shifting our talk to our modern technology today, the web has became rich with ideas, tools and resources, but it is also bombarded with negative elements or what we called the negative side of the internet. Let's fight, let's out number them by sharing our insightful ideas. Let's change the world.
• Write for your future. Whether you owned a blog, or do a freelance work through writing, you are making a paved way for your future. You may not realize it for the time being, did I? Well, I do realize it long ago. Blogging, for example, is like planting a tree; you are using your skill to dig up the soil, weed and water. The little plant might not become a tree right after tomorrow, but it will grow in time.
• Make money through writing. Did you built a strong tree guard for your little tree? Well, it is grown now and bear sweet fruits already, I realized you did (the tree guard thing). I am not joking, there are lots of people out there who make money blogging. They have used their writing skill to make a good living for themselves and their families.
• Give more time for your family. That's the bottom line. By exploiting the richness of your ideas, you would see yourself managing your own schedule inside your living room, giving you the chance to bond with your families anytime, much longer.

Anyway, what are your reasons why you have nurtured your writing skill? Have I guessed any? See you:)

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/16/2012 01:51:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, How to Blog, Quality Post Writing, Top 10 Reasons

Top 10 Tips on How to Write Quality Post for A Long Term Blogging

Google has a strong and consistent campaign for fresh, helpful and quality contents.

People who are searching through Google are expecting for answers to their queries, yet sometimes, SEO tricks can alter the results. Instead of showing the real solution to search queries, searchers are prompted with results controlled by search engine optimization tricks. What happen to the real answers? They are buried somewhere. There are many pages needed to be scanned before getting what people are truly seeking.

Today, Google itself is starving for quality, that's why the Penguin Update is just one of the medium to extract helpful information from the web by eliminating entries with poor quality. With it's latest update, upon comprehending it deeper, Google would not just skim, but conduct a careful study on every content available on the web. It's not just about picking up frequently used keywords and key phrases, it's about understanding the whole contents. Where do you hear the concept of "Survival of the Fittest"? It's not just happening around us, it's happening in the virtual world, and quality will last among others. In order to survive, you need to understand what quality really means.

How to write with quality?

The following are tips in writing quality blog post:

1. Write a precise or specific title. Limit it to 70 characters maximum including spaces.
2. The title of your post should serve as the thesis itself just like writing academic essays. It is a brief or concise description of what you want to inform your readers.
3. Write a good introduction. If you have a habit of reading, you would know how writers convinced their readers to continue reading using persuading passages. Make it a guide in writing good composition.
4. Do not bury your main ideas. Most of the times, readers would love to take a glance at the highlights of your entry. Use bullets or numbers to enumerate key points.
5. Exploit the richness of your ideas. A blogger is a creative writer himself. Do not try to duplicate contents from other sources, surely, Google trackers like Penguin would surely notice you, instead, craft your own piece using your style. Write creatively, it's your time to shine so you need to show off.
6. Spice up your post with keywords. But sometimes, the problem lies here. Keywords are effective SEO, however, this would give your content a bad impression if you do not use keywords properly. Think about taking drugs, if you intake medicine out of doctor's prescription, it would give a bad effect on your health, and most likely lead to overdose or worst, addiction. Similarly, the use of excessive keywords would result to keyword stuffing. Hence, use number of keywords that are reasonable enough.
7. Short entries are readable, yes, but make sure not to compromise the quality of your post. If you want to have a classic entry, shall I say, write pillar-like articles. It's longer, basically more than 500 words. I called it classic because people might find it helpful regardless of time. Find how to write pillar article at Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
8. Use visual aids that would help readers digest your message. It's like yeast mixed in a dough. Pictures and graphics will spice up your post specially for longer entries. But, use pictures with restrictions, if you do not feel safe using images downloadable from the web, use your own. That would make you creative enough. If you do not have any, please adhere to copyright policy, always read the copyright notice.
9. Use other ideas from other sources that would strengthen yours and give your final words, just like a closing paragraph. Quotations or excerpt might be placed at the beginning or in the middle of your entry, or at the closing part. But make sure they are from trusted sources. Back links might harm the health of your blog if you are not sure sources are not credible from the eyes of Google.
10. Learn the basic function of HTML at w3schools.com. Learn what is the difference of anchor text from URL and practice how to use them properly in linking back. Learn how to use 'nofollow' tag, alt attribute for image and
    anchor text. Learn the basic web design to become a competent blogger. What's really unforgettable experience is the endeavor to become even better.

These are helpful basic tips in writing a quality blog entry for your readers. Well, there are too many tips available, but do not get overwhelmed, it would stressed you out. Concentrate on few or formulate your own base on their ideas and your actual experiences.

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/11/2012 06:30:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, Quality Post Writing

Richness of Ideas - A Strong Foundation of a Better Blogging

Difficulty is in its way. If you want to dig up a pit in the ground, expect that it won't be as easy as digging a hole in the shore.

What is the most possible reason why we grab a pen and a paper, and start penning down sentences? That is simply because we hold an abundance of ideas that makes us productive in our own ways. The richness of our ideas helps us realize the things that we see and imagine. In fact, the world has came this far because we hold much of it.

The richness of ideas is innate to all of us.

It's innate, so you have it. But how if you don't see it coming? Do you have problem delivering your opinion? The reason behind difficulty is the lack of practice. It's building up, resources would yield nothing if they are not put in a proper use, and so does your chance to use your intellect.

How to build up the richness of your ideas?

Sitting and talking about senseless thing is the most unproductive thing one can do to his life. He is like expecting a drought to come with nothing at hand. In order to have a bountiful harvest, you have to weed and water and so on. My point is that, put your mind at a pace that would not make your brain outdated. Enhance yourself in a way that you can freely express the things that make you distinctive as a person. We possess different qualities and that make us special, find it in you as I am seeking it in me.

How did I build up the richness of my ideas?

Difficulty is in its way. If you want to dig up a pit in the ground, expect that it won't be as easy as digging a hole in the shore. Well, learning can be dull at first, but resist to that feeling and you will find what you are seeking for.

Learning Tips:

• Make reading and writing a part of your daily routine. If you are as well building up your blog, it's time to share your best interest to your readers. How can you able to make that? Write well. Make use of your rich ideas by writing great contents.
• Do not depend on your own abilities, learn from others and make an observation. Ask yourselves about the things that they have done best making them productive.
• Make an innovation, copy their style but make sure that you preserve your own. It is just like breeding, and yours will become a hybrid-- and you would come out much stronger.
• Make use of what you have learned. Apply it, not just in your writing, apply it repeatedly. Read more and write more. Be an addict to learning. Do not forget to use resources and materials that would make learning enjoyable.

Playing with Thesaurus - a way to build up the richness of your vocabulary.

Do not leave unfamiliar word, grab a dictionary or thesaurus, find its meaning. I love playing a 'thesaurus game', I would pick up a new word, list it on a paper and note down all it's possible meaning and synonyms, etc.

Well, ready for your blogging career? Just exploit the richness of your ideas and you will be on the go!

Reading, Writing, Constant Learning will give you the chance to write well and share more.

Since blogging has a strong connection to writing, down to our skills in shaping grammatical sentences and persuasive paragraphs, why not use available resources out there to help you become a better blogger? Your number one mission in building your blog is sharing fresh and great contents.

Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. - Friedman

Resources:

• Image Copyright "Richness of Ideas" Thesilein @ Flickr
• 50 Free Resources Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills Vitaly Friedman @ Smashing Magazine

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/08/2012 12:41:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, Free Blogging Resources, Quality Post Writing

A Light Subject

Today we are moving on... after telling you some sad reality, and the greatness of generosity, we are heading forward for our inspiration, yes, this is a kind of a light subject for this evening. Today is slightly bad because I feel so much pain on my back, so I got a massage after my work and for the time being I am ready to sit here and open SB and visit you. I will make sure that this day is an another worth reading part of my own story.

Anyway, I will simply ask you tonight... what inspired your to share your thoughts? what inspired your to click the 'new post', to write something and to publish it with excitement?

• Are you unloading some bothersome thoughts?
• Are you overwhelmed with insights worth sharing?
• Or do you write something because you don't know what's really happening and you want to seek an answer along the way?
• Or do you just scribble because you don't know what to write at all?

All these queries will lead us to one common answer, and that is learning along the process, that is what the skillful and the amateur share in common. I might left you hanging tonight, but I just want to tell you that if you do not have something in mind, squeezing your head for a post, just simply sit down and write your thoughts, you will learn something, you got your head, your heart and your keyboard. That's what I am exactly doing now.

We are bloggers here, we write or we are not bloggers at all...

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Posted by Editorial Team on 12/22/2011 11:03:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, Productivity, You the Blogger

SB Blog Directory - Updated!

Here we go to the next pace. I will tell you one simple secret to make your blog alive base on my short blogging experience...

Make yourself belong. Wander around and mingle new faces. Establish relationship true leaving a track of your thoughts sincerely rather than leaving the link of your page. Your interest will attract them to do the same for you.

This is a special post for a blessed Sunday, so before going further I wish you a wonderful day ahead of you.

I am talking about a new concept here at SB Community. My main purpose as a 'reader' and 'follower' is that I want to keep track to all my friends who have contributed some thoughts about our entries here. To put things at ease, I want to build a directory (an alphabetical directory as planned).

Rest assured that all the members of this directory will see 'SB' presence at their blogs, if not everyday, at least in a week where I and my partner got the extra time mingling and meeting new blogger friends.

Visitors of the SB Community will also experience an ease of finding new blogs worth reading at the SB Blog Directory.

Add your blog for free now! New! SB Blog Directory

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Posted by Editorial Team on 12/18/2011 04:45:00 PM in Blog Inspirations, Blogging is Learning, You the Blogger