Whenever you feel you want to or should write an article but you can’t make up your mind about what, reading old Triond articles may help you out of your dilemma. Go to your friends’ profiles, read their old articles, and go to their friends’ profiles and read their articles.
Whenever you feel short of ideas for writing articles, read. Read old Triond articles from your friends, their friends, or those you might find using the Explore feature provided on the Triond menu. Once you start reading, you will notice that every article is brim full with ideas. Reading a single article gives me so many ideas, I usually have to make a list to keep track of them.
Just as obviously, many of those ideas will never be realized by me, maybe because I find an article has already covered that special item and there is not a lot or even nothing to add to that. Sometimes, I find a theme needs so much explaining that is has to be split down into manageable chunks. And sometimes I am just not happy to find all the information I find is necessary to do justice to what I want to write about.
And an article doesn’t necessarily have to be about the newest book or publication. A good article may be written about our best poets or authors from centuries past and still be a valuable read with a relevant message. One such article is The Choices of Romeo and Juliet: It Was Not Fate But Human Error by Routledge.
My second choice is again an example to show that an article doesn’t have to contain the newest news, but solid information is a help: Pascal’s Triangle Created by Blaise Pascal by larcha 51. Writing about science may seem to be less creative (which it isn’t) than writing poetry, but it certainly has the advantage that your article is timelessly interesting to anybody researching a theme.
If you are a cook, there are so many possibilities what you could write about. Take this example: Affordable Fall Meals by Laurie Byrne Smith.
There are articles that will attract readers in a revolving yearly fashion: Writing about seasonal goods or festivals means they’ll lay dormant until they are in season again: Too Old for Trick-or-treating? by Holly Sendy. When you write about seasonal events, browsing with the Explore button will be very rewarding and you’ll end up with many links you might want to include in your article.
Finally, the very first poem of one of my favourite writers, a person who astonishes me time and again with her articles, stories, and poems: My Love by lindalulu. Her portfolio is well worth your time and energy to browse and read.
What it all comes down to: Triond is family; therefore make use of all the information that has already been stored. Use the site’s many features, link to your friends to make it easier for readers to follow up on information, and get inspired by what everybody has been writing so far. Taking your ideas from articles written earlier is no crime, and these articles will inspire you to write new and interesting stuff for people to read.
Tags: Arts, Inspiration, inspired writing, poetry, writer's block, Writing
November 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
good article. i like it.
keep it up.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Wonderful idea!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Looking into the archives is always a great way to start fresh and find new ideas.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:16 am
thanks for your visit..gonna read it here! i added you here;)
December 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Good Idea!
June 23rd, 2011 at 7:10 pm
These are good ideas. I often browse old Triond articles for ideas.