Yikes! Can you believe it? Tomorrow is the final day of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge. Gee. The two months of this challenge have really zoomed on by.

But you still have time to write to the finish line - and complete the last of your 30 articles for this challenge.

Next week we’ll have an online pajama party where we’ll award the Golden PJs to those writers who met the challenge of writing 30 new articles for article directories within the months of August and September.

I have several new articles to finish this weekend to meet the challenge myself, so I guess I’d better get started.

Have a super weekend!

Write, write, write like the wind to finish your 30 articles so you’ll get your own Golden PJS next week!

Suzanne Lieurance
The Working Writer’s Coach
cohost, the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge

Tonite I have the honor of being interviewed by my internet marketing mentor Tom Antion of GreatInternetMarketing.com on one of his brand new teleseminars. Tom has used aticle marketing in his businesses for many years, and this promises to be a great teleseminar.

“How to Skyrocket Your Visitors, Prospects, Publicity & Profits with Article Marketing”

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
6 pm PT/9 pm ET

Tom’s teleseminars fill up quickly, and the first 200 to register get the CD for free and Tom pays for the shipping.

Click here to join us tonight!

Jeff

 I have to tell you, it has been such a treat to be a part of The Lieurance-King Article Challenge and watch all these great article writers support each other for your Golden PJs. You are a great group of writers and entrepreneurs.

I want you to know there is still time to register for tonite’s preview call for the upcoming Article Writing & Marketing Secrets TeleCourse. Whether you register for the telecourse or not, you will walk away with 36 article marketing tips and strategies that you can use right away.

Article Marketing Secrets: 36 Leading Edge Tips,
Tools & Strategies You Can Use Right Away

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I’ll catch you tonite!

Welcome to Day 43 of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge!

Here’s today’s tip:

Use the season as inspiration for an article today!

In most parts of the USA, fall is in the air! Cool breezes rustle through the trees even though the leaves have yet to change colors to indicate autumn is here! But that will happen soon enough.

Today, use the season as inspiration for an article. Write a back-to-school tip, or a teaching tip for fall art projects, or even an article about places and things to visit and enjoy in your area of the country in the fall. It’s also not too early to write an article about Halloween or Thanksgiving. Even an article explaining when fall officially begins and what it really means would probably be picked up by many websites, blogs, and ezines.

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, where spring is unfolding, use it as inspiration for an article about the joys of spring today!

Happy writing!

Today’s tip comes from Challenge participant Dan Goodwin!

Creative Writing: How To Have And Develop More Creative Writing Ideas Than You Thought Possible
by Dan Goodwin

Do you struggle to have new ideas for your creative writing? Then even if you do have an idea, you don’t know how to develop it further, and shape it into an interesting piece of writing?

Read on to find the technique that allows me to write an article a day before I’ve finished breakfast, and develop more creative writing ideas than I can keep up with.

One of the biggest struggles writers of all types have is coming up with enough good ideas.

If ideas are scarce, when a good one does appear it’s leapt upon and devoured like a slab of fresh meat thrown to a pack of ravenous alligators.

This kind of pressure doesn’t exactly create an environment conducive to writing freely and creatively!

So how can you turn it around?

The first part is to have more ideas. This make the second part of developing those ideas so much easier because you have more ideas to work with, and there’s less pressure and expectation to develop every single one into an incredible piece of creative writing.

Here’s the technique I use that enables me to write an article every day before I’ve even taken my last bite of toast and sip of juice at breakfast.

1. Capture ideas. The first step is to develop the habit of capturing all the ideas you have, without judgement. I use a journal for creative writing and for article ideas I have a text file on my computer in which I store the title ideas in a list.

Bonus tip: I start each new idea with a “*” symbol so they’re easy to see. I always have at least 10 extra “*”s at the end of my list of ideas. Just having these blank invitations that suggest they will soon each have an idea beside them helps me fill them more quickly. Very subtle, but it try it, it works!

2. Choose an idea to develop. Each morning when I get up I go to my computer and scan through the ideas file. When I see a title idea that catches my eye for some reason, I copy it, and paste it into a blank document. Don’t go through EVERY idea, you’ll overwhelm yourself. Pick the first that appeals and run with that momentum. Keep Reading »

Welcome to Day 39 of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge.

Here’s today’s tip:

Try to provide a steady stream of articles (one a day or one every few days) to article directories. Don’t worry about writing dozens of articles and submitting them all at once. Slow and steady wins the race here, too.

Sometimes we can get so caught up in this challenge, we forget what our actual goal is in writing and submitting to article directories.

Our actual goal is -  driving more traffic to our websites and blogs.

The best way to do that with articles for article directories is to provide a steady stream of articles rather than submitting dozens at a time and then not submitting any more for weeks or even months.

Think of it this way - article marketing is like a marathon, not a sprint.

Start off too quickly and you might lose energy before you finish the race.

But pace yourself, and continue on slow and steady, and you’ll get to the finish line.

In this case, that means you just need to keep writing and submitting an article or two on a regular basis.

Welcome to Day 38! Here’s today’s tip:

If you want to write more articles, one easy way to find more time is to increase your overall productivity with some improved time management skills. I blogged about this very thing on my Inkthinker freelance writing blog this morning, actually, based on how much I’ve been able to accomplish this week by using some new techniques.

Here’s what I recommend:

1. Get up early.
2. Create a routine.
3. Make a to-do list.
4. Find an accountability system.
5. Take breaks and reward yourself.
6. Clock out at the end of the day.
7. Get enough sleep.

You can read more about each of these suggestions at the original post. And remember, the group’s Yahoo-based e-mail discussion list is a great way to create accountability. Have you joined yet?

Happy writing!

-Kristen

Welcome to Day 37! Here’s today’s tip:

Remember when you were a kid and your parents drilled it into your head that you should always say thank you? Do you have kids of your own whom you’re helping to develop that habit? Well, now’s the time to practice YOUR gratitude skills, and to use them to build your article exposure.

If you haven’t already, set up a Google alert to notify you every time one of your articles is used somewhere. Each time Google’s crawlers pick up the keywords or phrase you request, an e-mail will be delivered to your inbox with the URL where your article appears.

Now, here’s where the gratitude thing comes in. When you receive that alert, go to the site and leave a comment or send an e-mail to the webmaster thanking him or her for using your article. All the better if you can add something else of value to them, like a link to a related resource you love or an extra tip that complements the article’s contents.

Give the publisher a reason to come back to you for more information in your area of expertise, and let his or her readers know that you’re both accessible and an authority on your topic.

Try it!

- Kristen

Welcome to Day 36 of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge.

Hmmm…I don’t see any comments about yesterday’s tip for the day.

Does that mean none of you who have accepted this challenge wrote an article yesterday?

Well then, let’s try something different today.

Instead of ME giving you a tip for the day, please post YOUR best article writing tip here as a comment.

OR - post a comment telling us what’s the most difficult part of article writing for you.

This challenge is all about us helping each other, so don’t be afraid to share your own tips and tricks for article writing and article marketing.

Thanks, and have a super day!

Suzanne Lieurance
The Working Writer’s Coach

Hi Kids!

While you are writing all these articles (and you will continue at this winning pace after the challenge, won’t you?) why not learn how to make money with your article too?

That’s the topic of tonite’s free Article Guy TeleSeminar

“The Basics of Making Money with YOUR Articles!”

 Tuesday September 4, 2007
5;30 pm PT/8:30 pm ET

Click here to register!

And at the end of the call I’ll be giving away ONE fr’ee tuition for the upcoming Article Writing & Marketing Secrets TeleCourse and you MUST be on the call to win!

Catch you tonite!

Jeff

Jeff Herring
The Article Guy
Jeff@GreatArticleMarketing.com
www.GreatArticleMarketing.com