Writing, Reading and Engaging the Audience
I Have an Idea Better Than Recreating the Wheel
I’ve Got Stories Only Few People Have Read. Are You Ready to Read?
I’ve got a favor and a question to ask you. Please look at the above screenshot of my past published articles. On this list, there are 35 that have 10 or fewer reads. You’ve probably never seen them because they were written months ago.
As I review the list, I was going to select the ones I had the most fun writing or the most fun reading after I wrote them, to provide you a cheat sheet. It’s hard to make a selection just on the basis of a title. But here is an important lesson for new writers.
Seasoned writers always go their own way. No matter what we learned in formal training, there’s always a mindset of forgetting about whatever we learned in school because we will set a new path.
However, new writers may not have that luxury. You may have to go by the book or at least by your editor’s book. So why not start with a strong headline? When I say start, I am not suggesting that you create your headline first. Some people do that. I do that. But sometimes, I go back and change the headline.
But my story lines are so well defined in my mind before I start writing, I can write to the headlines I create because I already know the story plot, outline and outcome. That’s why, when you look at the above story titles, you can imagine what most of the stories are about.
What I am saying is your headlines play a critical part of your stories’ exposure. Place great focus on writing them because that could be the only chance you get for someone to examine your writing further. Think about it. How do you select the stories you are going to read? You scan headlines. Then, you select the one that interest you most. That’s what I wish to ask of you now.
Scan the titles of my articles and tell me which ones you think you might be interested in reading. Now, they are all online, but I may repurpose and republish one or two to see if more people will read them.
I’ve created some incredible gems within these articles. For instance, “You Couldn’t Possibly Have Messed Up My Fast-Food Order Again?” is a wonderful little article I wrote based on three separate trips to fast food restaurants. Each one of them messed up my order and it seemed as though there was a conspiracy against me.
I really loved, “I Receive Certificates of Appreciation Every Two Weeks.” It was fun, short, simple and to the point.
And honestly, each work of art that I’ve created, is a work that I adored creating for you. So, while I won’t tell you what to read, I will ask that you take a look at the list of 35 — (this will be article #124) and select two or three that you’d like me to repurpose. Or you can just go look through the list, pick the ones you like and read them yourselves.
I’d ask that you please leave a comment and tell me that you visited the article you read based on this article. Thank you.
About the Author
Julius Evans is a 2X Top Writer on Medium in Writing and Music. He has a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI; a Master of Arts degree in Strategic Communication and Leadership from Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ; a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from City University, Bellevue, WA, and an Associate of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies from Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas. He is a 1985 graduate of the Defense Information School (DINFOS) of Print and Electronic Journalism and Advanced Public Affairs. DINFOS was relocated from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, IN, to its current location at Fort George Meade, MD.
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