Writing a 250 Word Article is Like Taking a Flight From Philadelphia To, Well, Philadelphia

Start articles strong. Stay strong. End strong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has informed me that we are #1 for takeoff. Oh, and he also has alerted the flight crew that we are cleared for final landing. So you know what to do with your tray tables..."

As Words

The fact is that two hundred and fifty words is not a lot of time AT ALL.

As a full-fledged article writer, you do not have the luxury of back-story or foreshadowing etc. You do not have 'novelist time' or 'screenwriter time.' You have news snippet on the eleven o'clock news time. So you need to start these babies strong and keep them strong.

Resist the urge to keep looking down at the word count to make sure that you are approaching your conclusion smoothly. Let the importance and boldness of your early thoughts keep your article in flight...throughout its entire flight. For just two hundred and fifty of these words things, that should pose absolutely no difficulty.

I realize that I'm leaning rather heavily on the flight metaphor, but it serves a nice purpose. The same way it takes engines to lift that huge craft into the sky is the same force necessary to start and continue great articles. *Hmmmm. Engines.*

Start articles strong and there's no 'lag time.' You won't find yourself pointing to a flow of logic that 'gets your reader there.' Starting articles strong allows you, as a author, to substantiate as opposed to titillate.

Should you ALWAYS construct your articles this way?

Absolutely not.

In fact, you need an barrage of weapons in your writers toolbox. And you need to use them in rotation. Keep your readers involved (and guessing and entertained) by mixing things up. Become the kind of author that you like to read.

Start articles strong. And keep them at cruising altitude. Do that every time you write an article, and you become an airline owner.

Writing a 250 Word Article is Like Taking a Flight From Philadelphia To, Well, Philadelphia