How to Enhance Your Freelance Articles Using Google Documents

As a freelance author writing articles for eHow, it is important to constantly improve your writing skills with each new project so that your work stays fresh and relevant. Use Google Documents as a tool to help you enhance your articles in several important ways.

Sign up for a Google account if you do not already have one. Google offers a valuable collection of free products that may be used to enhance your experience on the Internet in several crucial ways. One tool specifically, Google Documents, is a handy resource for eHow article writers. Create an account with Google Documents. Once your account has been set up, you may access Google Documents by visiting the main Google website and signing in. To the upper left of the Google logo, you will see several links and the word "more" with an arrow pointing down. Click "more" and then select "Documents" to access your Google Documents account.

Create a new document with the title, "Article Ideas" or something similar. As you think of new ideas for articles, type the proposed title into that document, one title per line, and save it. When you have time to write the article in its entirety, you can use the list that you compiled to remind yourself about your earlier ideas. When the article is published, remove the title from the list. Spend some time brainstorming ideas for a rainy day when you may have more time to write than you do creative topics. Set a goal to have at least one hundred article ideas on that list.

Create a second document with the title, "Article Categories." This document will contain the title and URL of each article that you write for eHow. Copy and paste the article title first, and then on the next line, paste the URL. Leave a blank line between articles so that they may be easily distinguished from one another. Once you have all of the titles and links entered into the document, arrange them into categories and type the category title in bold above each section. Some examples are "Family, Automotive. Financial, Technology, etc." This list will be valuable when it's time to add resources to your articles. If you write a new article about an automotive topic, paste that title and URL at the end of the existing titles for that category and then choose at least three relevant titles and links to add to the "Resources" section of your article. If you use a web browser like Google Chrome which utilizes tabs, it is very easy to switch back and forth between your Google Documents account and the eHow website.

Maintain copies of all of your articles by pasting them individually into Google Documents. This will provide you peace-of-mind in knowing that you have a backup copy of each article stored safely online where you can access it at any time. Create a folder in Google Documents called "My Articles" and move them into it. You could also create sub folders based on the articles categories. By grouping your articles into categories, you can see which topics you write about most frequently. This will help you to determine your strengths and also show you areas where you may want to produce more content in order to achieve maximum exposure. Only do this, however, if you're knowledgeable in those areas and you have something important to share.

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How to Improve Your Marriage and Make it Last Forever

Even the happiest couples can slip into despair as mounting problems and distractions wear away at an otherwise successful marriage. Don’t let your love diminish and your marriage fall by the wayside. There are plenty of things you can do to fix it.

Evaluate your relationship. A lot of married couples don't see trouble coming and find themselves in a difficult situation when their marriage no longer resembles what it did at the start. Stressful jobs, problems between family and friends, verbal and physical abuse, troubled finances, infidelity, pornography addiction, drug and alcohol addiction, and even lifestyle changes can all drain the spice out of a good marriage.

Identify the problem or problems. If you can't admit to the problem, you may be contributing to it rather than helping. Secondly, talk to your partner. Just as it's unfair for your spouse to hide things from you, it's not fair for you to hide your feelings from them and expect them to change anything. If you still love them, give them a chance to make things right.

Acquire professional help. If communicating directly with your spouse does no good, you may want to involve a counselor, but it's best not to make this a family member or friend who is untrained in dealing with marriage problems. This can make the situation much worse. Sometimes, it is not practical to spend money for counseling, but you have to ask yourself how important a part of your life your spouse is. If you want to make your marriage to last, you may have to make sacrifices in order to work things out. A happy marriage is worth much more than any material thing you could ever possess anyway.

Once you've begun working on your problems, try to find some interests that you both share. Try new activities and see if you can agree on something fun to do together. If your interests don't overlap in many areas, this is OK too. Try to compromise and do things with them even if you don't enjoy them. On the flip side, they must participate in an equal number of things that you like to do.

Always listen to your partner. Whether you agree with their ideas or not, actively listen to them and give them your honest opinion, but never say anything that you will regret later. Give your marriage time to heal and continue to do things for each other. Do some research and find helpful books or movies to enjoy together.


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