Content writing as a career can be challenging. But once you’re through it, there’s no looking back. There will be a lot of apprehensions in the beginning, but if you are creative and open to learning new skills, you are only going enjoy the entire process of learning down the road.
A content writer’s job revolves around making constant efforts to reach her target audience. One has to be extremely careful while writing for a specific audience. But until and unless they follow certain guidelines or content writing best practices they are less likely to attract the organic search.
Writing needs skills, creativity, discipline and many other factors that broaden our perspective about things. But even though one has them all, at some point or the other, they tend to feel helpless. Fortunately, there are a number of online tools that are designed to help the content writers and bloggers in such a situation.
Here are some of these content writing tools.
Generating Content Idea
When creativity or motivation stop coming from within, these idea generating tools become a saviour. All you need to do is enter a topic name which you want to write on, these tools will provide you a number of ideas and hints thereby helping you take the first step in breaking your writer’s block.
Portent’s Content Idea Generator
Hubspot’s blog topic generator
Improved Text Quality
Once I came across a wonderful quote that says “if you want to be remembered by all, do something worth writing or write something worth doing”. But how can your writing be worth doing unless it’s worth anything at all. Text or content quality has a huge role to play in every content writer’s job. It involves a lot of determination and hard work. There are no short-cuts but of course there are tools out there to help you find your own mistakes in writing and improve your text quality. The content you create has to be error-free and apt.
Adding a Personal Flavor
Every writer has their own style of writing which gradually become their identity. Without a personal touch, every text seems to have a bland effect on its readers. Although it improves with experience, for beginners it’s all about practicing with constant focus on clarity of thoughts, content quality and context.
Get Creative with Images
Sometimes an image is worth a thousand words. Although finding an appropriate image is not a difficult affair when we have Google, copyright issue can certainly put you in trouble. Unsplash.com is a platform where you can get high quality images for your blog or website for free and put your though in a more creative way.
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