Five Tips For Freelance Writers

If you are a writer, and especially if you write content articles, you may find after a bout of writing, you feel as though you have run out of ideas and don't have a clue what to write for your next article.

I browse and frequent several different writer's forums and information sites, and see writers asking all the time about how people come up with ideas for their articles. Frequently, the line, "Write what you know!" gets thrown around - big help, huh? It's not much of a help, because if you knew what to write about, you would write what you know, and you wouldn't have been asking in the first place, right?

For me, I am never at a loss for what to write. Everything, and I mean simply everything, inspires me to write. You'll see on my blog a tagline - "I am a writer! It's not what I do; it's who I am!"

Oh, how true this is. I have always written - I simply cannot NOT write. Everything inspires me to write and it always has, from a young age.

However, not everyone is as fortunate or as prolific as I am (always stuck on maximum verbosity), and sometimes it is difficult for most writers to decide what to write about next. If you are a contracted writer or employed by someone else to write, you will probably be given story or article ideas, and then you do your research and write.

Freelance writers, however, have a different problem with deciding what to write. For the freelance writer, most of the time you will seek out where to submit your articles, instead of being assigned an article, and if you write for places like Associated Content, Constant Content, or other online article submission content sites, you pretty much are on your own to decide what you should write.

So let's look at some ideas to help freelance writers decide what they should write.

Tip #1: Write What You Know

I know I've already mentioned this, but let's take it a step further and explain what this means. The easiest and fastest way to write an article is to write about something you already have some background or knowledge about.