Why Writing Articles Are A Good Thing

Original article written by Fanta Arcadia posted 11 years 1 week ago

It is inevitable that many owners on the SIM were pulling their hair in frustration while the SIM was on its annual break. Others spent the time basking in the fact that they truly received a break from entering countless horses, breeding mares, or working yearlings. Then there are some of us that use the break to organize our spreadsheets and plan what mares we are sending to which stallions for the next year, and also updating our spreadsheets on yearlings entering our racing barn and horses of racing age that are leaving it.

Then we reach the faction known as the writers and the habitually poor. I say habitually poor because some of us have a terrible spending problem. If we have the money and we see a horse we like, we buy it. We become addicted to the sales page or browse the “Auction and Sales” page on the forum for horses for sale.

You know what they say. The first step when dealing with addiction is admitting you have a problem, and trust me when I say I have a problem with spending. So to counter this problem, I spend the break writing a few articles to publish when the SIM opens back up. This method is really great for those who get deathly bored during the dreaded break.

There are a couple of factors as to why this method is so great:

1) It gives you something to do. You are not spending your time dying of boredom, instead you are using your time in a productive manner that keeps your mind off of the fact that the SIM is on a virtual lockdown. This way you don’t destroy anything in fits of rage, pull out your hair to the point that you have bald spots, or suffer a concussion from banging your head against either a wall or the computer desk itself.

2) You will make some money when the break is over. As soon as you cash in those articles that you worked and spent so much time on, you get a reward of $20,000 for roughly (give or take) thirty minutes of easy research and inventive writing.

3) After researching to write these articles you have greater knowledge of the SIM. Let’s say that you have been writing breeding articles for the past break. After you have done all of your research on many different stallions from different specialties in the SIM, whether they be a different surface based stud or breed of stud altogether, you have a greater knowledge of what broodmare sire works well with what stallion. So the coming SIM year you have a greater idea of who you are going to send your broodmare to.

Writing articles that are fun to read and informative is not a hard task; it just takes a bit of research, a good imagination to be able to make your research into an interesting story so your readers do not go to sleep on you, and at least use some basic grammar skills. I am a major grammar freak and trust me, when I go back and read my articles and see one grammatical error that I missed I tend to freak out. You don’t have to go to the extremes that I do unless that’s just how you are, just make sure that your article flows and that you at least have proper spelling and full sentences. Nothing is more annoying than seeing grammatical errors all over the place.

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