by Nick Gipe

Created on: March 14, 2009

Perhaps an apple should have the word apple stamped across it, or the same on a tomato. By starting an article out with an answer to a question, or the title of the article, one must assume that the writer is unimaginative, uncreative, and uninteresting. Nothing bothers me more when the title of the article is also the first sentence or the the words YES or NO are stamped at the beginning of certain articles. Writing is an art form and should be treated like one.

The opening of an article should immediately set a mood or a tone for the rest of the article. Someone should read the first paragraph and get a vague sense of your view, not the entire article in the first word. Imagine if I had started this article out with the word NO. What would be the point of reading the rest of the article? You already know my view on the matter. If I were unimaginative enough to take five minutes to use the right side of my brain, then what is the motive for a reader to finish the article?

The first paragraph should have a hook to it. Something that catches the readers attention and makes them feel compelled to finish the article. The first sentence is the most important sentence in the whole article. If a reader doesn't make it past the first sentence, what makes you think they would read the last sentence before moving on to the next article? If the opening sentence is uncreative, what compels a reader to do what they do best? Read.

Take a moment to reread the first sentence of my article. When you read that, what were thinking? Maybe you thought its was unique, maybe you thought it was stupid. What it is though is different. It is not what you expected to see when you first read the sentence. It is creative and imaginative and very different from what you would expect. I did this to entice you to keep reading, to ask yourself, where is he going with this? In order to find out, you must keep reading and within a few sentence you know how I feel about the subject. I didn't have to say YES or NO to make my point, By doing this I let the reader know right away that I am not uninteresting because I am able to treat an art form the way it is supposed to be treated, rather than writing the same way I did in the first grade.

Writing is about a freedom to express your views the only way your views can be expressed in words. If you use words like yes, no, like, so, and 'cause, then you are not writing to your full potential. The best way an article can be wrote is to engage a reader in a story and make them feel that they are speaking to you directly, not reading a piece of Internet literature. Writing is one of the most creative types of art. Do yourself a favour and make it beautiful not tacky.

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