The first article is indeed hardest. Once you get started they will come much easier. The first thing you want to do is get ideas for your article. If you have a marketing business, you might want to write about getting customers or effective marketing tactics. Once you start thinking you will get many ideas.

As each idea comes to you, write it down in your article notebook or put it on a floppy. After you have several ideas written down, decide which one you wantto write about first. When you have made your choice, write a title down that captures that idea. Example: If you are writing about gardening, your title could be "Growing Plants, Not WEEDS!"

Once you get your title down, there are a couple of different ways to form your article.

1. Outline Method- In this method, you can write down all main points you want to include in your article. Then all you have to do is elaborate on each point with some good information. If applicable, include some useful links to provide more resources.

Libraries - Believe it or not, libraries still exist and are going string. In fact, there are dozens of libraries in just about every major cities, and most towns have at least one. Even town where I grew up, Lake Arrowhead, California, had a small public library.

Libraries are great places to get ideas for articles. I like to just visit and wander up and down isles, looking at titles, occasionally opening a book and flipping through pages. It's rare that I don't walk away with at least one or two ideas which turn directly into articles.

Botanical Gardens - A few miles from my house is one of best places on planet - Huntington Library. This is an awesome collection of art museums and displays which is not equaled anywhere in world (at least in my humble opinion). One of things that makes this magical place even more enjoyable is surrounding botanical gardens.

The library gardens are divided up into different habitats, duplicating most of major environments of planet. I've spent many enjoyable hours wandering through place, just looking at plants and environments, getting dozens and dozens of article ideas.

Something about gardens relaxes my mind and causes thinking process to become calmer and more organized. Ideas just seem to float up to surface, waiting for me to just pluck them up and convert them into articles.