Hmm. I wrote an article like this one and submitted it to EzineArticles very recently. It was something like, “Six Reasons Why I Love Being a Virtual Copywriter.”

I lifted the content from an old blog post of mine. Someone came by and gave my article a poor rating. So then I thought, hmm, why would they do that? Maybe this is “more like a blog post and less like an article?”

So, I deleted it.

Maybe when people write their “I Love” articles, they can go back later on and delete all the “I Loves” so that they may turn their work into an actual product review. And maybe I could do that with my “Six Reasons Why I Love Being a Virtual Copywriter” article, huh?

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Chris: This is really great! Thank you for setting up a quick (and time appropriate) template that anyone can use. Anything that makes my life easier – is a wonderful tool!!

Lisa

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Dina,

Often single article ratings are more of a reflection of the person doing the rating than the content or the author of the article.

Now, if 7 or more people all gave you a single poor rating, well…

I came up with this “I Love” article template idea today for 2 reasons:

Reason #1) I’m tired of hatred or violence inducing articles. If I read one more “I hate this or that” type article, I’m going to puke. Where is the love I ask?

Reason #2) I was going to encourage everyone to figure out where their niche intersects with Valentines day and get writing an article about that but this love template idea ooozed out first.

What would be really cool is if a person wrote 7-27 reasons why they love something as that would really be “GOING DEEP”!

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I love your template; it opened up a whole new line of thought for me.

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Great idea Chris!

As a marketer, I LOVE :-) the idea of tying into a trend or something going on in the world.
What a great way to tie in with Valentines Day, regardless of the business you are in.

It’s a great PR angle. And now you’ve just create a great article marketing angle. Kudos!

Now I’ve got to get to work on an article or two that share 10 reasons why I love ….. hmmm – well, I still need to figure out WHAT I want to write my “I Love” articles about.

Debbie

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Cool idea. I’m lovin’ it. Oh wait, that’s McDonald’s. I’m going to give this article marketing love thing a whirl…just the inspiration I needed today. Thanks, Chris.

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Rocking idea as usual. It’s like a meme but for Articles. Maybe it could be a Valentine’s Day meme too?

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I’ll submit an article which I think embodies the spirit of your new promotion.
Thank you,
Ken Hoffman

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What a great idea! I LOVE IT! lol!

Gotta write my article now. Thank you very much for this inspirational template.

Gratitute, Marc.

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Per your e-mail, I have written my three “I Love” articles!

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Great idea, maybe you should set up a new site Chris called loveezinearticles to avoid all of the negativity!

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Chris,

You don’t have to leave my comments here on line because if I am making sense to you it is for you personally, and not for everybody. But I wanted you to know about your sentence construction.

It might be nice if you wrote this last sentence from your article to be more clear to readers. I love clear writing! And I love helping out with things for people of value.

Your line: If you haven’t experienced the Series3 Tivo, I know you won’t be disappointed.

The referent is not clear. Will I not be disappointed that I have not experienced the Series3 Tivo? Will I be disappointed that I have not experienced the Tivo when I have experienced it? If I have not experienced the Tivo 3 will I now be happy when I have experienced it?

It’s also interesting that you use the double negative sentence when you are trying to write about being positive in writing an article. This is what we psychologists call the unconscious sliping in unconsciously.

The sentences contain two negatives. A double negative is confusing to people because usually one negative is used to contrast with the opposite as a positive.

Here you seem to make two negatives to equal a positive. Maybe technically it ends up clear, but it has to be figured out and is not simple and clear, which a punch line should be, don’t you agree?

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Strephon,

If I may play Devil’s Advocate:

Your points are valid, it’s true. But on the other hand, at least he got the blog post out.

Too many writers labor over the tiniest details until they make themselves crazy. The worst is when THREE people get together and take weeks quibbling over the semantics of what should be a relatively quick project. Good lord! Just get it OUT!

(That wasn’t directed at you, Strephon, but rather a spinoff rant).

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What a cool subject; I love it!

You know last year I did two series having to do with the “Love Theme” and it was fun too.

One was; “Read this Article if you Love…” and I must have done 50 or so. For example; Read this article if you Love Sushi, Your Family, Your Dog, Your Cat, Your Life, Yourself, Great Weather, Chocolate, Starbucks, Ice Cream, et.

The other series I did was the “I Love” series about 25 of those articles. I love to Fly, I love You, I Love Life, etc.

Of course being the balanced person that I am I have done “I Hate” series too. I hate Bureaucracy, taxes, Evil Doers, International Terrorists, Pollution, etc.

I have more fun doing the “I Love Series” and another interesting series I did was the “I Believe in You” series mostly self help motivational stuff. Those were fun too. The “I Believe in” series was good. Anyway, I believe in writing in series of articles an the “Love Theme” should be evergreen in your life as those articles certainly are over time on the Internet.

Anyway, great topic today. I just Love EzineArticles.com

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I LOVE the idea… and will try to use it as I think you intended… to “free-wheel”… to write in a new-to-me way.

CJ

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Dina, Dina, Dina,

A one star rating is a badge of honor. I know why I got the few I have and it makes me smile every time I notice ratings. Do you suppose some copywriter out there might be jealous of your passion and had to rain on your parade? We must love them too! :-)

Strephon,

Excellent observations. Thanks for stopping by. I always enjoy your observations.

One Hundred Reasons Why I Hate Love! :-)

1.) It causes people to overlook their proper place in life.

2.) It cuts into profits and dividends.

3.) It makes people difficult to control and manipulate.

4.) It takes people’s minds off their work.

5.) It makes politics tolerable.

6.) It is a major factor in overpopulation.

7.) Valentine’s Day. Bah Humbug!

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Hey Ed, quit making me smile and laugh! You big love.

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Strephon,

Thanks for pointing out my sentence structure mistakes.

I’m going to edit the above blog entry right now and fix it. I appreciate the correction. :-)

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I was just about to work on my ezine for Feb when this came through – it will definitely influence my next e-zine.

Cynthia

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What a fantastic idea. I just sat down to write an article and thought I would check my email First.

Glad I did because there was your email with this great Idea.

Thank You
Terry

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Strephon:
Would you care to comment on the following musings of mensa member and former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who was commenting on Iraq. I think everyone appreciates clear writing, but then there are so many things I think I know, that maybe I don’t know.

“The Unknown

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.”

Well I’m off on the Love Boat to find out what I know I know I love.

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Hey Strephon,

You said: “unconscious sliping in unconsciously”

Did you mean: “unconscious slipping in unconsciously”

Touché, eh? :]

Perhaps in your act of kindness, you unconsciously mis-spelled the word “slipping” so I wouldn’t feel bad for making the mistake I made.

In my case, I was unconsciously incompetent and now I am consciously incompetent on this issue, but thankfully I’m surrounded by very consciously competent members and editors.

I love psychology and even considered majoring in it, but alas, I choose Sales & Marketing for my college life.

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Susan,

Since Donald left his post, Dick Cheny has become the knower behind the decider. I love that quote and have distilled it for those who do not. “We don’t know everything but you will never prove it.”

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Chris,

Thanks for pointing out my spelling error. I did look for errors because I knew I would be under scruteny. So the unconscious unconsciously slipped in for me as well.

We can both feel more at home with each other. I hated it when teacher sent me out of the room with two girls to teach me spelling when we were in the sixth grade. Two girls!

I try to be as imperfect as possible, but I am not perfect at it.

Actually, your sentence is wonderfully clever and unique, and so does indeed show literary ability and a fine mind. I admired this sentence from the beginning, I really did. Writing is like chess for me. It was the sentence I had my struggle with, not you.

The Web is the biggest publisher in the world now, whatever forms of writing we do. It is all communication, relation and selling something. It is all writing. I enjoy the game.

I don’t see why I ever have to try and publish my writing in paper book form anymore. Let it all be published on the web and bring me readers and money to live on. I am a converted, paper-book writer to a Web interactive, digital writer.

More and more of our life arena happens on the web now.

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Susan, thank you for sharing this from Donald Rumsfield, who wrote:

“The Unknown

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.”

My response is as follows:

“Love

As we love,
This we know,
There are loved loves.
There are unloved loves.
There are loved un-loves.
We love to love.
We love love.
That is to say,
Love is all
Because we all love.
The unloved do not know
How to love.
The loved can love.
The loved can love
The loved and the unloved
Together.
This is love.
-Strephon”

Thanks again, Susan

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What a novel idea – I love it! Chris, you’ve really outdone yourself. My mind is swarming with ideas and I’m definitely going to sit myself down and put them on ‘paper’.

Thanks, Chris and have a *sunny* day!

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I recently wrote an article about my pride about becoming a father, this proved to be very successful.

I might write it again within the new template about why I love being a father. Maybe another about why I love my son.

Perhaps even one on why I love writing articles.

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Chris,

May I ask why you have chosen to have the lyrics of My Favorite Things decorating this blog post? I’m just curious…

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Wally made the graphic and he has a background and degree in music.

I didn’t even catch this until you pointed it out.

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Kathryn,

Nice!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-I-Love-to-Write-Romance&id=435498
http://ezinearticles.com/?Three-Reasons-Why-I-Love-SEO&id=435525

And coolness also goes to Jan Verhoeff:
http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Love-EzineArticles.com-Opportunities&id=435769

And Hoodia kudos to Marc Simard:
http://ezinearticles.com/?7-Reasons-I-LOVE-Hoodia-Gordonii&id=435877

And yes, permission Email marketing rocks, Vinai Prakash:
http://ezinearticles.com/?3-Things-I-Love-About-Email-Marketing&id=436433

Wow, I’m proud of you all!

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In regard to the use of “My Favorite Things” lyrics… I must be missing something… I thought it was entirely appropriate in a “things I love” post.

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CJ, no, you’re not missing anything. I was just curious to hear what the team would say if I asked. :)

Maybe it’s Wally’s subtle way of offering music therapy to heal you of your recent bad vibe with “hateful” authors.

“When the dog bites… when the bee stings… when meanspiritedauthorssubmitnegativelywrittenarticles…

I simply remember my favorite things…

(Hoodia, Romance Novels, Email Marketing, whatever)

…and then I don’t feel… so bad!”

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There I go, taking comments too literally, again! {smile}

CJ

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Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon dies at age 89.

We Love You Sheldon, thank you for a life well lived and the great literature you have shared with all of us.

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…including I DREAM OF JEANNIE!

[was created by Sidney Shedon]

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Chris,

Thanks for the “I Love” template. I used it for my latest article on the topic of volunteering. That template was a great idea! Now it’s time to write some more articles…

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Great Idea Chris, keep on rocking

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When this delightful blog was being written, I was busy building my website.

I am soo excited about this article template. I thought I had read and bookmarked every template EzineArticles has, but I just don’t remember this one.

I love it!

With Many Thanks!

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Thanks for all of the templates Chris. They are very helpful in putting a direction to an article idea and I need that.

Linda

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Thanks for all the template ideas. The tips are so great!

One article is still not accepted, but I hope I can resend it again.
You encourage me a lot!

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