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Article marketing is a tool everyone can use to grow their business easily and with little work once the article is finished. Today I want to celebrate one of our authors. We recently had an author reach 500 articles and to me that’s quite an accomplishment.

The first author to reach this level is Shelly Hill. Shelly I want to thank you for being an author at WAHM-Articles.com. Your articles are awesome and I know they’re wonderful and helpful for everyone who reads them.

Shelly has agreed to supply a bio and she’s graciously wrote up a few tips to help authors with their writings.

My name is Shelly Hill and I am a 43 year old wife, mother and grandmother living in South Central Pennsylvania who enjoys writing. I have been writing since I was a teenager and first started out writing poetry and school reports. As I entered college at the age of 17 my passion for writing grew stronger.

My college major was Nursing but my minor was in business. To make extra money during my college years I would write reports for my professors and proofread reports and papers for students. Once the internet came along I was able to feed my passion for writing even more my blogging and getting into article marketing. Over the years I have learned a lot of tips that have helped me become a better writer and I am very proud to become the first author at WAHM-Articles to have 500+ published articles.

Today I thought I would share some of my personal tips on writing.

1. I have to be in the mood to write! If I am not in the mood and force myself to write my material doesn’t come out as nicely as it should. I am lucky though that when the mood strikes…I can usually write 3-5 articles at a time.

2. Setting the mood to write! When I write I do have a routine and that routine consists of quietness around my house. Unlike some writers, I can not write with my phone and door bell ringing, kids screaming or my husband trying to talk to me. I like peace and quiet but I can write with a little background noise if it’s on subject matter that I know well.

3. Set Writing Goals! I find myself to be more motivated to write if I set up weekly goals that I want to achieve. When it comes to goal setting, keep them reasonable. My personal goal is to write 3 articles a week for my personal or business use. I am a ghostwriter for other’s so I fit my own writing in after my client work is done. If I obtain my writing goal for that week, I do reward myself which helps to keep my motivation going strong.

4. Get A Writing Mentor! I have a great business partner who is also a ghostwriter and we motivate each other to write. In addition, we will proofread each other’s work for accuracy and help each other when needed. I love bouncing topic ideas off of her.

5. Don’t Limit Yourself! I used to write only about 2-3 different types of topics when I first started writing. As time went on I realized that I was really doing a disservice to myself by not broadening my topics. If you are writing about a particular niche, I am sure you can find a hundred different topics within that niche to write out so that you are not regurgitating the same information.

6. Networking! I have found that I have grown as a writer because I network and socialize with other writer’s online and in my local area. It is great to have a support system with like-minded individuals like yourself who also enjoy writing.

Well…there you have it! My top 6 writing tips that work for me!

Shelly Hill
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