How to Be A Writer
I usually write my introduction paragraph last.
That’s the way that Demand suggests you to it and, lo and behold, I agree with them.
The most important thing about the introduction is to make sure you get the title phrase in there.
To make it easier on myself, I usually just start out by typing the title phrase into the Introduction box and building the paragraph around it.
When I first started at DS a couple of years ago, I definitely would put in a lot of time and effort to make sure that the Introduction was clear, concise and contained all the necessary information for the reader.
These days, not so much.
To be quite honest, I’m surprised at some of the stuff that’s been getting through. Since starting the site I haven’t really been publishing that much, but I sent through a number of articles back in February just to see what would happen. I didn’t think they were going to go through.
But they did.
It was the same thing that one of our commentators pointed out a few posts back – some of the writing there at eHow is just awful. As bad and as slip shod as you think your posts are, there’s probably someone out there a whole lot worse.
So don’t pull your hair out over writing the intros. Sure, it’s probably not your best work, but as long as it passes by a CE, that’s good enough, right?
I’m sure there’s probably something in the Demand Code of Ethics that says you need to write every article like it’s your best and blah, blah, blah.
I don’t see anything in the Demand Code of Ethics that says they won’t f**k up search engine results. So of all the web pages in the universe, the eHow page on treating heroin addiction is the most relevant? Really?
Any particularly bad eHow (or other) articles out there?
