Tired of the same "10 tips for" posts or stories? Here are some different ideas for making your content more diverse

1. TYPES OF
FEATURES
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2. GOT SMALL, ACTIONABLE TIPS?
ROUND UP
• Either 20 tips for whatever
(challenge is organizing the items)
• Or
• 10 different experts say…(you
make it seem like they are talking,
though they are not)
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3. START SOMEPLACE INTERESTING?
HISTORICAL
• Write about a person, place or
event from your history
• Must interest your current
audience for some reason
• Focus and angle very
important
• Bring out human drama
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4. INSPIRATIONAL
• Uplift the reader in some
way…how this made me better
• What I learned - first person
treatment is common
• Profile common
• Person overcoming adversity is
common
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5. HUMOR
• Must be funny
• To your audience
• Can be humorous versions of
other types of articles…then
called satire
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6. ESSAY OR PERSONAL OPINION
Not your opinion, but intended to
make the readers form an
opinion
Needs
•Facts
•Logical thought process
•Why you discarded other conclusions
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7. EXPOSÉ
Based on investigative reporting
Facts must be surprising
•Things you didn’t know about…
•Corruption exposed
•Pretense
Has large number of well-cited
and used sources
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8. SERVICE ARTICLE
•
Logical explanation of how
something works (works well with
technology, health, business)
•
More engaging when framed as
things that happened to a person
•
Tells reader how or why
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9. PROFILE
• Lets readers feel like an insider
with a person/brand
• Person/brand from their
perspective
• Person/brand from perspective of
people who know them
• Background about person/brand
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10. HOW TO
Introduces what you are trying to do
Tells what hardware and software you need to do it
Reader should finish being able to do it
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11. OBSERVATION AND
DETAIL
Setting
• Where
• What does it look like
• What does it sound like
• What does it smell like
• What happened
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What were people doing?
What was the background action?
How were people reacting?
How about the non-central characters?
Copyright – Amanda F. C. Sturgill