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One topic can turn into a series of articles
One way to help you increase your skills as a writer and generate more content is to take a topic and write about it in multiple ways.
For example, I wrote the following two articles on the same day, but they both take slightly different approaches to the topic of utilizing a credit card as a secondary emergency fund.
Can I Use A Credit Card As An Emergency Fund?
Let Your Writing Marinate Overnight
It’s kind of like letting your food marinate overnight instead of marinating for a couple of hours. You could end the marinating process early and have a tasty dish, or you could leat the food to marinate overnight and have a magnificent tasting dish. Out of those multiple articles you write on one topic, one of them will be better than the rest – usually the later versions.
Whenever we write about a topic, we usually have more to say or have opposing or differing thoughts than the first and original version or draft.
Instead of calling it a done deal after publishing a piece, find a way to tackle the subject further, which will help you pump out more writing material; it might even lead to a book since the articles are on the same topic.
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