I'll just go ahead and blurt this one out because I know it's on your mind: Don't worry about being an expert writer. Don't shy away from writing ezine articles because you think you might misplace a few commas, semicolons or dashes. This is Internet, not Oxford Journal of Medicine. You're not trying to win a Pulitzer Prize. Just write your article best you can, re-read it several times, run spellcheck, and then go from there. I also recommend waiting at least half a day and then coming back and re-reading your article. This allows your brain to basically re-boot and you may find some errors you overlooked before. But don't stress; You should see some of typos I have made.

I'm not going to bombard you with everything there is to know about ezine article writing today. This article was designed to just wet your whistle a little bit. To get you in mood so to speak. To get you wanting to write and to give you ideas on what to write about. I assure you there will be other article in future that touch on all other aspects of ezine article writing. For now, though, I'll leave you to your writing, me, I've suddenly got a taste for some chocolate brownies...

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