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10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

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    10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

    Hello and welcome to part 3 of my guide to 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing, Being a Freelance Writer or Book Author: Scratching Beneath the Surface! Grab a coffee as I read you through what it means to scratch beneath the surface, why and how you would want to do that for finding inspiration for writing and going on to become a better one just for it! 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

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    10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface
    So one thing that will make you stand out from other writers is the detail you go into in your writing. While condensed articles are great for on-the-go reading. People always end up searching around for more details on things sooner or later! And all it really takes to provide people with that in your writings/articles/content is to just scratch a little deeper in your research yourself. And basically, the deeper you scratch, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go? The more details that you'll be able to find out about and come up with on that subject. And here in today's lesson on 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing, Being a Freelance Writer or Book Author we'll touch on how to go about that and what I mean, in more detail! 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

    The devil's in the details!

    So then as a case example, if you search something online, you probably only check out the top 1-3 or 1-5 sites on it and then that's it right? But don't you dig a bit deeper? Because when you dig a bit deeper and keep on researching it and checking out tons of sites about that subject matter, you'll be able to embellish yourself with a ton of info on it those top sites didn't even include.

    And these kinds of details can be in much more demand than the actual stories those big sites are covering. Think about it. Those sites are only showing what they're showing about it right now because those sites are the biggest ranking sites anyway. But some of them just put any old quick story and don't cover things in great details.

    And this is what I do! When researching an article I'll dig deep and check out about 100 sites about it in couple days and jot down or even copy bits of what I've found and then use that all to write my own article on it but in much more detail. I'll basically take bits from everything and try to include everything in one.

    That's what makes a GREAT story or read. Informative and insightful. Well detailed and well researched. And that's how writers and authors make a good name for their self as such and how their articles and blog posts get more shares and engagement than the others do too.

    So if you're looking for ways to find inspiration for writing, then scratch beneath the surface in your articles! Go deeper and dig deeper in your research. It will come up with tons of ideas and inspiration, more than you can anticipate! And go on to make you a better, more successful writer and author. 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

    And that completes today's lesson on 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing, Being a Freelance Writer or Book Author: Scratching Beneath the Surface.  

    Your Optional Homework until the next part:

    • Search up something you're interested in. Some news reports or articles and go deeper and dig deeper about it.
    • Try to find 2-3 things and write them down that you wouldn't have learned if you never dug deep.
    In the next part of this guide, we'll talk about and you'll learn about how to study people to come up with inspiration and ideas for writing. I hope just from that alone it's whetted your appetite for learnin' and hope to see you then! 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

    Any tips or donations please leave in the jar on your way out and do pick up a complimentary mint!

    Cheers! 10+ Ways to Find Inspiration for Writing: Scratching Beneath the Surface

    Mike.

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    JoeMilford

    JoeMilford

    Basically, this is some good investigative journalism to inspire content, or, as us English majors have to do, you have to always perform a very close read of the text to unearth subtle nuances and to decipher and decode certain phrasings of the writing in order to have your own content to contribute to the ongoing discussion. In this way, we are always reading texts in new and more detailed ways, and I am with you here that there is always more to be found if we put pressure on a subject and further research it until we do go beneath the surface for more insight. And, even then, we could still probably go even deeper than that...
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    Corzhens

    Corzhens

    Sometimes when I am searching, I check on the second page if there are not good prospects in Page 1. However, it takes time to do that. I understand the style of other people that they only rely on the list on Page 1 because they don’t have much time to spare for the search. And I agree that most of the time you are in hurry when you are searching. Checking beneath the surface is a good advice because there are more substance in the inner pages.
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    Martinsx1

    Martinsx1

    In mass communication, it's called investigative journalism where one looks beyond the facial view of fact but dig and look deep into it in order to discern and discover the hidden truth.

    Now, one can employ this technique when it comes to writing because it's going to give you all the background into the topic which you are writing on and it would make it very detailed at the completion of the work.
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    jaymish3

    jaymish3

    100 plus sources? This is crazy. I think this would work if you put up content maybe once utmost twice week, otherwise you won't have time to get through all those sources. If you write articles or a blog for someone there is a deadline. They often want the article in 24 hours or less. This idea is great but it would only work for your own blog or if you are willing to hire someone to do the research. Unfortunately in most cases time is of the essence.
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    jpk0007

    jpk0007

    That is very true, the devil lies in the detail. people will always want to know more detailed information about any subject and there is always a story within a story if we try to investigate and find it. things may appear in front of us in a certain manner but if you invest your time and effort in digging deep inside any news, you may eventually find out a completely different and opposite story, which may not be in sync with the original story dished out in front of the public. Sometimes it may be very interesting to investigate in such a manner and search the truth.
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