Article Writing Tips - Truth First
Truth...
what happened to it? If you're an article writer, this article is going to touch on a lot of raw nerves.
That's going to make a lot of people VERY uncomfortable.
Well, so be it.
It's time for the BS to stop and for article writers to start being responsible again.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, keep reading.
I promise you're going to get an earful.
Let's start off with the painfully obvious.
Nobody is going to read your article if it's boring.
I understand that.
I, better than anyone, understand the importance of putting together an article that isn't going to put my reader to sleep.
But that DOESN'T mean that I lie or even stretch the truth.
Oh come on, you know what I'm talking about.
You're writing an article on some treatment for some ailment and you make up this story that you had the ailment yourself and miraculously, the treatment cured it.
You do this in an attempt to sell some product.
This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
It doesn't matter if the product is the greatest product in the whole world.
It doesn't even matter if the sales page has 100 testimonials, all of which can be verified.
YOUR experience with the product, if any at all, MUST be true.
You cannot make up things just to write a more interesting article.
I'll take it one step further.
Let's say you're writing an article about France and how beautiful the country is and you talk about your excursions through Paris...
even though you've never been out of New Jersey.
What's that you say? It's only a little white lie? I mean after all, it's not hurting anybody if I say I went to Paris even though I didn't...
right? Wrong again.
It's hurting the profession.
If everybody just made stuff up, we wouldn't know what to believe anymore.
Plus, if you can justify lying about your trip to Paris, where does it end? Do you then start lying about your enjoyable flight on some new airline? What if, God forbid, a plane from that airline goes down and somebody hopped on it because of YOUR article? Folks, it's time for article writers to start writing the truth.
The only time I EVER talk about my personal experience in an article is when it's true.
How's that for a novel concept? Personally, I'm sick and tired of all the trash I've been reading online (blatant and obvious falsehoods) and I'm calling for it to stop.
Is anybody listening? For the sake of this profession...
I hope so.
To YOUR Success, Steven Wagenheim
what happened to it? If you're an article writer, this article is going to touch on a lot of raw nerves.
That's going to make a lot of people VERY uncomfortable.
Well, so be it.
It's time for the BS to stop and for article writers to start being responsible again.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, keep reading.
I promise you're going to get an earful.
Let's start off with the painfully obvious.
Nobody is going to read your article if it's boring.
I understand that.
I, better than anyone, understand the importance of putting together an article that isn't going to put my reader to sleep.
But that DOESN'T mean that I lie or even stretch the truth.
Oh come on, you know what I'm talking about.
You're writing an article on some treatment for some ailment and you make up this story that you had the ailment yourself and miraculously, the treatment cured it.
You do this in an attempt to sell some product.
This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
It doesn't matter if the product is the greatest product in the whole world.
It doesn't even matter if the sales page has 100 testimonials, all of which can be verified.
YOUR experience with the product, if any at all, MUST be true.
You cannot make up things just to write a more interesting article.
I'll take it one step further.
Let's say you're writing an article about France and how beautiful the country is and you talk about your excursions through Paris...
even though you've never been out of New Jersey.
What's that you say? It's only a little white lie? I mean after all, it's not hurting anybody if I say I went to Paris even though I didn't...
right? Wrong again.
It's hurting the profession.
If everybody just made stuff up, we wouldn't know what to believe anymore.
Plus, if you can justify lying about your trip to Paris, where does it end? Do you then start lying about your enjoyable flight on some new airline? What if, God forbid, a plane from that airline goes down and somebody hopped on it because of YOUR article? Folks, it's time for article writers to start writing the truth.
The only time I EVER talk about my personal experience in an article is when it's true.
How's that for a novel concept? Personally, I'm sick and tired of all the trash I've been reading online (blatant and obvious falsehoods) and I'm calling for it to stop.
Is anybody listening? For the sake of this profession...
I hope so.
To YOUR Success, Steven Wagenheim
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