When writing an article or anything else as far as that goes, try not to worry about keywords and phrases, the topic, or anything else with the initial piece. You may find out that not worrying about such things can help with the writing of the piece.

Try not to worry about writing the article. When you worry or try to hard to write your articles, you wind up stifling yourself and your creativity. Your mind becomes cluttered. You become overwhelmed.

You begin to think I’ve got to get this done. You wonder is the keyword density high enough. You begin to check how many words are in your article. You become frazzled thinking of all things you need to do to make sure the article will be found. 

Before you realize it, you are having a complete meltdown while writing. You then become depressed, well maybe not depressed, just overwhelmed. You don’t want that to happen. It isn’t a fun place to be.

Rather than fretting, worrying, and having a being flipped out, take a break. When you come back to your article, relax, write, and have fun with your topic. When you take away being relaxed and having fun, you become uptight. That will show through in your writing. 

When you become uptight, the tone of your article changes dramatically. Your readers will see it. That isn’t a good thing. When you are having fun with your articles, your audience will have fun reading them. 

Think about how you have felt when your job has become so demanding that you hate being there. That isn’t fun nor is it an environment you want to work in. Why put yourself through the same torture as any other workplace?

When your job or writing articles loses its fun appeal, you don’t want to do it any longer. When you feel yourself not having fun with an article, put it aside. You can come back to it at another time when you feel like making that article more fun from your standpoint. 

You may find yourself breaking it down into several articles, like I did with this one. At one point this article was on its third page and 1,265 words long. As I kept writing, I felt as if the lights were going dim. That told me the article was too long and I was no longer having fun with it.

I broke the article down into several parts to make it fun again. After all, I’m not writing a novel. I am writing an article.

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