Inspiration to Take Up Writing

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WeekendNotes needs articles. Which means more writers are needed to write them. Writing for WeekendNotes is an interesting pastime for a novice writer to consider. If you need inspiration to take up writing, then do read on as the following has tips and stories about writing for WeekendNotes to assist people to take steps towards getting published. However, this article can also be just for interest's sake, as it's got great information on how to be a writer as well as a more informed reader.

When asked about this publication, I say it's a 'writers club,' organised online for reviewing most things reviewable. It seems to me that it aims to be a library of reviews even with double reviews, which WeekendNotes calls 'duplicates' which yields good alternative articles for the library.

On the first day of March 2021, on WeekendNotes.com , the Gold Coast has more than 1000 yet much less than 2000 articles, despite over 500,000 residents and, in fact, fewer articles than less populous Sunshine Coast, yet has potentially more reviewable work. While Brisbane is less than fifteen per cent short of Sydney in the article count yet not per person. See this link for populations of Australian capital cities. An example of coverage is Sydney (see the end of the article), which has 9000 restaurants versus Brisbane's 3500, yet Sydney has less than double the total reviews.

Restaurants is only a category - there are a multitude of categories, including lists, questions, foods, walks, events, tours, day trip ideas and many more. With lots to review yet lots of people wanting more, it hints about WeekendNotes needing to collect lots of its reviews. Over a long time, this is a mammoth task, but the benefits involved to other tourists and event-goers plus many others makes it seem a great idea. So I hope this review helps one do something fun and valuable to others (as well as oneself) and try writing.

In terms of personal benefit, I can say recently, I got a silver prolific award for writing twenty articles in one month and I lost weight in a healthy way, from exercise - the progress was astounding. Soon I will be nearing the ten thousandth view for my articles. Getting the twenty articles award gave me lots to do, in my quest to help the senior writers add to their library of articles. I also find the writing awards are varied on the writers' profiles. If any problems with reviewing I feel I could discuss it with the other website users. Writers can have anonymity - this improves many writers' reviews of places such as restaurants, for example, it gives a review credibility to 'be a customer'.



Here are my tips to inspire novice writers:

The style guide and the writer FAQs are the basics of getting published - both are lengthy and it helps to memorise them. The FAQs and style guide worked for me as I wrote, so I found I preferred to recall them than always reading them as I wrote. That aside, I recommend starting out at a different reviewing site, such as a product reviewing online for stuff like whitegoods or travel or try customer feedback because it helps grow one's confidence gradually - despite the time commitment. Starting off at these websites gets any novice the concept of following instructions and then converting that into published work - like lots of these endeavours, following instructions is important. Vocabulary can be improved by using online dictionaries and looking up alternative words - hence another great reason to write for WeekendNotes, that is, it's mentally stimulating to produce something publishable. The WeekendNotes online community is supportive and likes to help and that should lead to increasing the involvement in reviewing as well as prolific reviewing.

Typing up the reviews seems like a potential issue for some novice writers - that's overcome by improving typing skills whilst temporarily focusing more on photos, because a picture tells a thousand words. In terms of cause and effect, there are all sorts of neat ways to think of this, as bad photographic equipment often advances good writing, but bad typing advances good photography.

There's also pay - which is apparently good for this line of work. Writing pays at an average rate of ten dollars AUD per article paid gradually over the span of the article while less reviewed cities (such as outside Australian state capitals) attract twice the average pay, due to the need to promote WeekendNotes in those cities. It can be work because it's a form of enjoyable yet lower-paying work, but overall, it even states in the writer FAQs that it won't usually replace a job nor make any site user rich - hence my writers' club nicknaming of the publication.

Any novice writer will surely need this article, on how to write a top WeekendNotes article .

Yellowpages.com.au is the source for some 'food for thought' about demand and supply for reviewing:

Greater Brisbane has nearly 18,000 total WeekendNotes articles as at 01-03-2021. The search query of Greater Brisbane Restaurants - Cafes - Takeaways in Yellow Pages yields 3500 search results in the directory which is about 20 per cent of the 18,000 total for Brisbane WeekendNotes. Just to be fair or realistic about this, I must add that the Parks search query has only a results count of 200 but that is on the Yellow Pages, hence not at all accurate in that category's situation due to smaller parks having no contacts, but are still reviewable, while Motels-Hotels-Holiday Parks in Yellow Pages yields a count of 450 - perhaps accurate.

Meanwhile, for Greater Sydney nearly 21,000 total as at 01-03-2021; Restaurants - Cafes - Takeaways in Yellow Pages yields 9000 or just under 46 per cent in one category of the entire 21,000 Sydney WeekendNotes.

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