7 Writing tools to make your article stand out

Why do you write?

To make a difference? To express your thoughts? To share information and knowledge? Or for any other reason. Sharing your ideas can be in the form of articles, blogs, newsletters, e-mails, or in many other forms. The point that needs to be noted is that your write-up should be informative with a grabbing hook and have the potential to answer the reader´s questions in mind.

Thus, to get you to achieve your primary goal of grabbing the attention of the reader, here are some tools that can help you meet your goal. Each tool is equally important in the world of writing and can give you the exact requirement your write-up needs.

Grammar perfection — Grammarly

This tool is here to help you sort out all your grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. You can use Grammarly as an extension on your web browser or use it online itself. Apart from these basic features, it also offers you Grammarly on a premium level that helps you correct your sentences to a much deeper level.

When using Grammarly, you can mention the tone of your write-up along with information on your target audience in the settings to get a more accurate correction. Grammarly usually works with American English.

The Readability Guru — Hemingway editor

To all writers especially copywriters out there, this is the tool you need! This tool gives you a very good guide on how your writing appeals to the audience. The editor here gives you a summary of five sections that need a good look at.

• The number of hard sentences to read.

• The number of very hard sentences to read (Usually long paragraph sentences).

• The number of adverbs used.

• The number of passive words used.

• Alternative and simpler words that can be used are suggested.

Making your write up authentic and 0 plagiarism — Dupli Checker

Plagiarism is where you need to be careful. Copying other writers´ work and not giving credit can lead you into trouble. Hence, get your write-up checked on Dupli Checker. It is free and does an individual check of up to 1000 words. Once checked, if your write-up does have a % of plagiarism, it will show you the links of the original content so it will be helpful to avoid such sentences. Dupli Checker also has premium payment options where you can do more advanced plagiarism checks in depth.

No distraction please — Calmly

Just as the name suggests, this website allows you to write without distractions and gives you enough space and a calm environment on your desktop screen to type in your thoughts. No icons, no buttons, just a blank screen to type out your words.

You need to make sure that in Calmly it does not auto-save, so keep saving your work to avoid any disappointment. You also have a toggle full-screen option to even stop showing the opened tabs list on your web browser. You can also print directly from this site. Cool right? Try it out!

Sort out your thoughts — Mind Meister

When you are given a topic to write on, you can have several thoughts at once going through your mind. Use a mind map to sort them out to get a good flow to your write-up. This tool has different features such as emoji icons to give you the option to make a colourful mind map, different font styles, and sizes.

This tool too has different payment plans to get the option to create many mind maps as the free version only allows to make three mind maps. So try out the free version and get your ideas onto a map to help you channelize your write-up points in the right flow for the benefit of the reader.

Get the right keywords — Surfer SEO

What is the main reason for you to write something on the Internet? One reason is that you wish many others read what you want to share. For that to happen, you need to get your keywords right. Keywords are those words that an ideal reader would search for to retrieve information on a certain topic.

Use this extension to make your life easy. Once this extension is added to your web browser, every search that you make gives you a list of short-tail and long-tail keywords that will guide you as a suggestion to include in your blog. You can also use other tools such as Ubersuggest or Keywords Everywhere for the same purpose as well. The stronger the keywords, the higher the chances to get your write-up to appear on the first few pages of a Google search.

Your place for content ideas — Answer the Public

Do you ever have the issue of running out of blog or article ideas? Ever wondered what topics are trending and what do people want to know about? Use this tool to get the information you want. This tool also has paid and free plans so check it out to get many content ideas in one go. Other tools such as Buzzsumo or Quora can also be used for the same purpose

Conclusion

To get your article in a smooth flow that may attract the reader to read till the end, you need to make the article crisp, clear, and informative. Thus, you can use the above tools as guidance to get your next write-up to the level that you will be proud of and keep your readers engaged and come back for more.

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