How To Quickly and Easily Pick Hot Topics For Articles
"What shall I write about?" is the first question that
inexperienced writers ask their literary advisers. "If you
haven't anything to write about, why write at all?" might be an
easy answer.
Most persons, as a matter of fact, have plenty to write about
but do not realize it. Not lack of subjects, but inability to
recognize the possibilities of what lies at hand, is their real
difficulty.
The best method of finding subjects is to look at every person,
every event, every experience - in short, at everything - with a
view to seeing whether or not it has possibilities for a special
feature article. Even in the apparently prosaic round of
everyday life will be found a variety of themes. A circular
letter from a business firm announcing a new policy, a
classified advertisement in a newspaper, the complaint of a
scrub-man, a new variety of fruit in the grocer's window, an
increase in the price of laundry work, a hurried luncheon at a
cafeteria - any of the hundred and one daily experiences may
suggest a "live" topic for an article.
Subjects and phases of subjects that attract readers may, for
convenience, be divided into the following classes, which,
however, are not mutually exclusive:
1. Timely topics, 2. Unique, novel, and extraordinary persons,
things, and events, 3. Mysteries, 4. Romance, 5. Adventure, 6.
Contests for supremacy, 7. Children, 8. Animals, 9. Hobbies and
amusements, 10. Familiar persons, places, and objects, 11.
Prominent persons, places, and objects, 12. Matters involving
the life, property, and welfare of others, 13. Matters that
affect the reader's own success and well-being.
Of course, you'll want to track your articles to determine which
subjects really push the "hot buttons" of your readers.
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