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Article #204: 5 Dynamite Ways to Generate Ideas for Parenting Articles

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The key to selling reprints to parenting guides to camps. What can parents do to
publications is the creation of dynamite make sure their children stay healthy at
ideas followed through with professional camp? What are the traits of a safe camp?
writing. Here, I'm focusing only on Change to camping plus another topic
finding those lucrative topics. like education or finance to create
Most topics in regional parenting unique articles.
publications are straightforward: 3. Who do you know who has an unusual or
finance, parenting tips, health, sports, remarkable story - something that
and education. The trick is to twist them affected children? What did the parents
in an unusual way. learn? Write an article using the
1. If you're a parent, what do you wish anecdote as an introduction to the
you knew about a topic? Write down information you want to give. A great
questions that you have as you go through anecdote can sell a story.
the day. When I was driving the other 4. Visit online parenting forums and read
day, I complained to myself about bad the questions people ask. Use some of
teenage drivers. Then I wondered, "What these as a basis for your article ideas.
can parents do to encourage good 5. When you research a piece and talk to
driving?" If you already know the answer experts, look for what you don't know.
to the question, it won't make a good "Joe says insurance is important for
article unless you're an expert on the families," won't make an article
subject. interesting. Too many people know that
2. Take a generic topic and make it insurance is important. But a quote like,
seasonal. Choose a season about four "Joe says disability insurance is the
months away, because the lead-time for most neglected area of insurance, but it
parenting publications is 2 to 6 months. protects young families from the biggest
Four months from now is April. What threat to their security," will make
happens in April (or would be published parents keep reading.
in April) that I can combine with a topic If you give editors timely articles that
like health? In April, parenting readers will want to read, you'll sell
publications start printing their summer your work over and over again.






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