Make a folder on your hard drive and call it “My Book”, or the title of your book. Eg. “The Falcon”.  Within this folder make another folder and name it “Research”. Also keep a hard folder of non internet research. Spend the first week searching the internet, public libraries, newspaper archives regarding the topic of your book, and store these in the “Research folder” Design a plot (story) for you book and place this in a folder named “Plot” in your “My Book” folder. Write a chapter summary for each chapter in keeping with your aforementioned plot. (this can be adjusted as you write if need be).

Start writing at whichever chapter you want to start at. If you have a concrete ideas where you want your story to end, then write the ending first and then work backwards. This is a tried and tested writing method. Set a definite time and regimen to your writing and stick to it. RL Stine, (Goosebumps series) set aside a room as his office and made a rule to write 20 pages per day. After the first week of research, you have 23 days left. If you write 20 pages a day you will have a 450 page book! You do the math.

Here are some tips to remember:

• Make a plan and stick to it.
• Don’t agonize over words, write what comes first, you can always revise later.
• Find a comfortable writing atmosphere. Some people like writing in crowded cafes, some like solitude.

• Prepare Your Ground: Research

  Always take time to research. Is it safe material to use? Is it legal? Think plagiarism.

• Plans

  Look for new designs. Your confidence as a writer will show through good planning and you will create your own style that others will recognise, look for new angles but don't be afraid to go back and use old materials or styles, draw up your plans, and write down your ideas and findings

• Scaffolding

  Support your work, use spell check, dictionaries and thesauruses, check the grammar, this will help your work stand strong when ready for public viewing

• Laying Down Foundations and Building

  For the writer, having a platform to build upon is essential, a topic or a character in the mind is an idea or a dream, the moment they are put on paper or captured on the computer they become a reality, something to be built, prepare strong foundations, have all of your basic tools and preparation ready, spend time smoothing out and levelling faulty work, add to the décor, find new fonts, clipart, illustrators etc. Work each day, take breaks, proof read, think positive and enjoy what you are doing, it will show in the finished product.

• Add Windows

  Photographs can enhance a piece of work, they can be the windows that the reader looks through to understand a little more of what you have written. Photographs allow the reader to add to the piece by using their imagination, this could make the reader feel the work is personal to them; it could make them feel that you have written just for them, you then gain a fan. Writing a brief outline of what the article or book is about helps the reader, it gives them an idea of what your work is about, it is the window into your work, a short descriptive, sentence can capture the readers eye.

• The Roof: Copyright

  This protects your work, a piece written by you is yours unless you sell the rights to others, keep copies, register your work if you wish with the copyright office of your country, post your work to yourself but keep the envelope sealed, the date is proof if you need to contest your right legally. There are several ways of protecting your writing, just type copyright on your search bar and you will find many answers.

• The Front Door

  This is the invitation to enter. Your finished piece is ready for viewing, the key to your success is to push it open and invite people to publish your work. Use email to contact publishers with a brief outline of your work and yourself, use an internet publisher site such as Triond , traditional stamp and post to publishing houses, there are the many ways you can get your work out into the big wide world, there are guidelines and how to get published articles on the internet, there are books with the names of publishing houses and the style of work they are looking for, the books are for sale or in public libraries, once you open that door be prepared to go to work.

• The House

  You have found the home for your work, now you can send the new address, sit back and enjoy the rewards of your hard work

• Property Maintenance

  If you have written an article using dates, be sure to return and update the piece if relevant, i.e. Building regulations for 2008 will need updating in 2009, maintain your property and it will last forever.

• Selling Up and Handing Over the Deeds

  When selling your work i.e. a book, get a reputable agent to act on your behalf, make sure you get good legal advice, read the contract before signing and know the full value of your property.

There you have it; builder or writer the answer to getting noticed is starting with strong foundations and working hard.

What does any of this have to do with Improving my Earnings? Everything.

If you are one of those writers that charges full steam ahead despite what obstacles stand in your way. Without stopping. Without worries, then you are the type of writer that will go far and nowhere fast.

If you are one of those writers that slow to examine the obstacle in your path, but do not take the extra time to formulate a solution to move it out of your way, then you will be consistently stumbling over the obstacle the longer that you leave it in your way.

If you are one of the few writers that stops fully to examine the obstacle that is blocking the path, and then develops an understanding of what caused that obstacle to originally come to block your path, and then formulates a carefully thought out plan to remove the obstacle, then you are the type of writer that will become a successful content writer.

Becoming successful at writing or anything for that matter doesn't usually come by pure chance. It requires a lot of hardwork and patience, but most importantly, it requires an understanding of marketing, branding, and tweaking this and adjusting that, so that you can achieve any goal that you put your mind to accomplishing.

Now, let's get started with the lesson.

The following are 10 Important Things That Every Triond Writer Should Do To Improve Your Earnings:

1. Write your Triond Author Bio that is located in your account tab that is found in your Triond dashboard. Do not rush through these process, because if your Bio looks sloppy and poorly written, then your potential readers may be left with the impression that the rest of your writings will be much of the same, and then decide to leave without reading any further. Let your readers know a little about yourself, but do not reveal too much about yourself, leave that mystery to be revealed within the pages of that which you choose to write about within the pages of your writings. This way it gives those potential readers something to look forward to and they will be likely to read some of your published work.
   
2. Published a couple of articles, poems or stories before you start making any friends. Start sharing your writings with the rest of the world and Triond community, so to show the type of writer that you are.
   
3. Understand the difference between being a friend and being a fan, while at the same time trying to earn an income and building a solid reputation for your writings is extremely important. If you are a new writer to the Triond family and you start trying to make friends right away before publishing any of your own work, then this is what I consider to be a fan and usually I will not add you as a mutual friend. If you on the other hand have published some of your own writings or photos for that matter to Triond, and then you add me as your friend I will make you my mutual friend, because then I will also have a reason to be your fan, too.
   
4. Read everything that Triond has provided for its writers to learn from. Triond provides all new and current writers tools, so that they can learn the basics of self-promoting or otherwise known as marketing in layman's terms. Furthermore, there is a Triond School available for free to all Triond members, so that they will learn how the different social bookmarking networks work and other valuable information that is designed to get new and current writer started on the right foot.
   
5. Take time and make realistic writing goals and income goals that you can achieve within your own ability to learn what you need to learn and do what you need to do to see your goal through to completion. Making too lofty writing goals and income goals will only set you up for future disappointment, especially if something that you could not foresee happens where you cannot carryout your plans to achieve your goals that you set.
   
6. Decide what type of writer that you want to be and what type of writer that you already know that you are, and then choose to be just one of them and no, you cannot be both.

   If you are choosing to be the type of writer that writes poetry, stories from the heart or personal stories, then you should also be aware that this choice is much harder to earn a decent income from. The reason why, is because usually these types of writings contain fewer high paying keywords that are used by advertisers to determine the rate of payout that they are willing to pay to the publisher, which the publisher shares with their writers according to the number of views that an article receives in any given timeframe that the publisher sets.

   If you are choosing to write for an income, then writing about just anything is out the window. To be successful and begin building a steady income that will continue to grow over time, then you will need to start writing for the market. Writing about subjects that everyone is talking about or about subjects that will be talked about in the days, weeks or months to come. Yes, not every article will be successful even if you are a popular writer. It is the nature of the business and is something that you must get use to or quit writing, because obviously Internet content writing isn't your area of expertise.

   Just as important as earning an income is to a serious Internet content writer, it is equally important to build a solid reputation for yourself and your writings. If you are a writer that enjoys writing about the things that you like and enjoy or if you are a writer that writes for the market, so to earn a living income, then it becomes important to write and publish something new every few days. This way you will potentially have readers who choose to subscribe to your RSS Feed and when these readers choose to do this, then they want to be informed when you publish something new. This is what businesses would call repeat business and that is good.

7. When submitting your writings to Triond to be published, then you must know that using MS Word and saving your writings in the word document format is what I use and is an acceptable format for publishing. Triond does accept other document formats, but you will need to take the time and read through all the information that Triond provides to its members, so to learn exactly what these other document formats are for yourself.
   
8. Learn a little bit about SEO and Keywords, so that you are able to write an article that will return a better income (per view) in the longrun. Both of these subjects are very important areas to study, especially if you want to make your living writing. There is a lot of information about these subjects on the Internet and there are several Triond writers who have written excellent articles about SEO techniques and understanding the importance of keywording your articles. Take you time and learn this at your own pace.
   
9. Avoid becoming one of those writers that believe that you are in competition with every other writer out there on the Internet, because you are not. Even if you believe that you were the first to write about a particular subject chances are someone else have already published something about the subject before you even had the opportunity to record your thoughts on paper. It's OK, to have more than one or several other writers writing about the same thing, because every writer will uniquely write an original piece of work, thus giving the readers more choice to read possibly challenging points of view.
   
10. Triond writers it's up to you to market and promote your own writings on and off of the Internet. There are many different marketing techniques that work, but some require much patience and time to start paying off and other marketing techniques will payoff very quickly, however it usually will only last a matter of a few hours to a few days, and then the view will begin to slow down to a trickle.

    Joining social bookmarking networks such as: StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Faves and others like these, will give your articles the chance to be quickly noticed by potentially millions of other members belonging to the same social bookmarking networks that your articles were submitted to. However, you will still need to make friends at these networks to be able to build an effective marketing network, so to achieve your projected writing and income goals that you have planned for in advance.

    If you are a student in a college or school, then use this opportunity to tell your friends and other students about your published writing, and then give them the website address where your articles and/or writings are located. Be sure that you take the time to write down the address yourself, and then give it to your friends, because this way you are sure that the address was written down correctly and this extra little effort may have convinced that person to drop by and read some of your writings, you never know.

Journaling also allows a young person to learn more about the process of note taking. The better notes they are able to take, the better off they should be able to do in school.

There journal does not have to be limited to words, their journal can also contain pictures they drew. Both writing and drawing facilitate the process. Do not limit your child as to what they can put into their journal. Your child should decide what they should add to their journal. Allowing them to enter what they want in their journal peaks their creativity, and the more creative they are allowed to be, the easier they will be able to understand things, as they grow older. They can also have more than one journal.

Journaling is a way for your child to learn more about themselves. That is why it is so important for them to be allowed to be creative. Despite what people may think, using ones creativity is a way for someone to learn more about who they are. Even if they are doing something it turns out, they are not very good at doing. It gives a child a way to examine things that may be challenging to them. It can also start them at a young age to be more of a problem solver. The most important thing is that they are allowed to be creative and the rest will happen from there. Even if when you give them their first journal and the first question out of their mouth is, “What do I write in it?” so starts the process.