Tips on writing an article

BITS ‘N’ PIECES

• Read a lot, especially the publications you want to write for.
• Observe everything around you.
• Listen to different sounds and dialogues attentively.
• Pick the topics that will interest your target readers, or are beneficial for them in some way.
• Brainstorm what comes to your mind on your selected topic.
• Research if needed.
• Write your first draft without caring about disconnected ideas, grammatical errors or spelling mistakes.
• Edit it the next day. Make necessary changes.
• The beginning should be compelling, and the ending well-concluded.
• While giving your opinion, add counter opinion as well. It will make it a balanced article.
• Now request two to three people to read it. Edit again in the light of their constructive criticism.
• Send it and wait for the response. Wait for at least one month before asking the editor about its status.

Happy Writing!

By Hina Narjis

Fascinating facts about famous writers

• Dickens also gave himself a number of unusual nicknames, including ‘The Sparkler of Albion,’ ‘The Inimitable,’ ‘Revolver’ and ‘Resurrectionist.’
• The Great Expectations author loved his pet raven, Grip, so much that when it died, he had it stuffed and mounted in his study.
• Dickens suffered from obsessive-compulsive behavior, combed his hair 20 times a day and, when staying in hotels, would immediately rearrange all the furniture.
• Ernest Hemingway was a professional bullfighter; he also pioneered his own signature brand of rum.
• Carroll also had a very bad stammer but was vocally fluent when he spoke with children.
• Our favourite romantic hipster poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was the literary world’s first celebrity vegan. He even wrote his own pamphlets promoting the benefits of what was at the time considered a radical, predominantly bourgeoisie diet.
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer author Mark Twain nearly drowned 9 times as a child, before learning how to swim.
• J. R. R. Tolkien went to parties dressed as a polar bear, liked to chase his neighbour down the street dressed as an Anglo-Saxon warrior, and was known for sometimes offering shopkeepers his false teeth as payment.
• Edgar Ellen Poe often wrote with his Siamese cat on his shoulder.
• John Steinbeck’s dog ate his first manuscript of Of Mice and Men.
• Enid Blyton hated children. The famous children’s author was described by her own daughter as having ‘not a trace of maternal instinct.’
• Dr. Seuss aka Theodore Geisel wasn’t actually a doctor. He also invented the term ‘nerd.’