Writing A News Story To Succes!

When you say news writing, you are dealing with a number of events and everyone is interested to read it. If you want to write a news article, make sure you have gathered the basic W and H of the story. You should know what's the story all about, where did this story takes place, why this event is worth knowing, who are the participants of the story, when the story occurs and how the story began.

Details are important in news writing. When you have no enough details at hand, it seems impossible to write a good news article. In fact, before you write a news article, you need to research, research and never stop to research. You can even browse the Internet while you are writing the article to verify the information. After writing, it's your main responsibility to edit your article. Check for any typo error, wrong grammars etc.

Basically, a news article follows the traditional inverted pyramid form of writing. That means, you need to begin your news with the most juiciest slice of the meat. Your news writing begins with a lede (pronounced as LEAD). This is a journalistic slang term which refers to the first two sentences of your news body. The lede serves as your thesis statement of the news story and it must immediately capture your reader's attention. In fact, writing your lede in one sentence is already enough. A one-sentence lede is all you need to tell your readers why your story matters. Anyway, you can freely your the other details in the succeeding paragraphs.

"A 10-year-old girl and her bed-ridden grandmother escaped death yesterday after a woodsman hacked open a cross-dressing wolf that swallowed them whole."

This is an example of a lede I've got from youngwriter.typepad.com.

The only secret to becoming an effective news writer is to read, read and never stop reading. Writing is about conditioning. The more you read, the better you'll become and when it's time to put your ideas in the paper, you need to control the flow of your writing. Use few and easy-to-understand words and your paragraphs should be short, not more than two sentences. Avoid clauses, if possible. Clauses are hard to read and you are like tormenting your reader's mind when there are several clauses in your story. Remember: “A good rule of thumb is to have just one main idea per sentence.”