You're right, beginners especially can benefit from making this easy. Many of them are scared to try because it just seems such a big task.

To be honest, once you've done a few sentences over a few days it's impossible to stop at just one. You'll automatically end up rewriting more than one at a time.

That's the real benefit from the techniqe. It kind of slips the whole job past your mental defenses and makes it seem very trivial.

There's an old saying. How do you eat an elephant? And the answer is: one piece at a time. 

Good luck with your writing!

Your article breaks it down so that even total newbies have a starting point to commence their own article writing.

Its a bit like when you had to do a book review in school - I used to read the back cover and simply change the words!

This is a great way to attack the crucial skill of article writing - thanks for reminding me how easy it is!
I could have been suffering a bit of writers block but you have inspired me to be on my way to action once more!

Well done - Kym

I tend to agree with you that few people write well. However, if the purpose of the content is to have a "chat in print", rather than to demonstrate one's intellectual supremacy, then 'well' written content is not an absolute necessity. Content that communicates is the necessity.

Actual content will win out every time. Substance over style. That doesn't mean a well written piece of good content won't knock everyone's socks off, of course. It will.

The biggest problem for most people, in my opinion, is getting round to it. That's something even great writers have a problem with.

My suggestion is to take the pressure off yourself because, frankly, most of us will freeze at the thought of writing, or editing a full article. But as ecover designs so rightly points out, "how long is one sentence a day going to take me to edit?".

It's something that anybody can achieve and in my experience success builds upon success. So if you stack the odds in your favour of success you're more likely to keep at it. Early success in most things is a great motivator for continuation.

Of course, "success" can be defined exactly how *you* choose. I'm recommending to everyone who finds it hard to start, or complete their articles that they make it easier on themselves. They might just achieve more that way.

What do you think?

Racquel: agreed. Make the article appealing. A little effort spread out over a few days adds up to more than you think.