* Set up interviews of experts and professionals in your field.
* Write a troubleshooting article or a ‘How to’ article. For example, in your Ezine all about food, write an article ‘How to whip up quick lunches in 10 minutes’.
* Write a short real life incident that happened with you which taught you a thing or two. You come across as a ‘real’ person with real mishaps and real problems in life. And how you dealt with such a real situation shows your strength of character. Your readers will be able to relate to you more and will trust your opinions.
* Go to news groups and discussion forums on the Internet and see what people are talking about nowadays. Most of these groups have archives that go way back. That way you also learn how people and their thought process evolved and guess their next step.
* One thing that you must understand and firmly believe that your Ezine is all about a topic you love and know a lot about. Your first idea will shoot from your knowledge bank. Run through your head and you will be able to write quite a few articles.
* Finally, research for new topics. You will be amazed at how many new topics you will find!
Earlier, when you needed to do some research on any topic, you needed to hit the local library. Go through big books with tiny letters and dig up old newspapers to find out the content relevant to your article. That would take hours, even days and it used to be a demanding task and only those who are persistent and patient would make it through.
Thankfully, with the advent of Internet, you can get as much information you need through the click of a button. One link leads to another, one website takes you to another website, one page is connected to another and that way you have unlimited information at your disposal that can be used the way you want.
Whenever you are on the internet, browsing, researching or just plain surfing, make sure that whenever you find any web page or any link relevant to the article you are contemplating to write or that can be useful for your Ezine, save it on your hard disk. That way you can look up the information at some other time.
Even if you find some information on an article you have already written and published or about some article you are considering writing in future, do save it anyway. That way in case you need to update your existing article you can do that easily. Also, saved information can be used at any time, so even in future if you are planning on writing about a particular topic, you can do so immediately without having to go through the bothering task of searching on it all over again.
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