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I've always preferred to avoid subheaders on shorter articles. For list-based articles, I'll usually just put it in paragraph form like an essay and craft the first sentence of each paragraph to really emphasize what other writers would put as the subhead. This format works best in shorter articles ...

In general, two shorter articles will make more money than one longer article of the same quality and sales appeal. It also has the added advantage of being able to sell one article while waiting for the other to sell. However, the roughly 500-700 wordcount range sells best; so if you split an 800 w...

The most important thing to remember is consistency. If you abbreviate one unit, you should abbreviate all of them. Use "ft" and "in" or "feet" and "inches", but don't use "ft" with "inches". Avoid using the symbols (' and ") in this c...

I recommend reading Stephen King's "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". It offers a mixture of insights into his history with writing as well as some style recommendations and suggestions for your self-editing process. It's aimed more at novel/novella/short story writers, but much of it is...

The issue could lie with either you or them. If it's you, it could just be you weren't on top of your game. It happens to everyone. Or your writing style may have been subtly influenced by a novel you've recently read. If it's them, they could just be in a bad mood or feeling particularly picky or t...

You can write articles on almost any topic. Exceptions are mostly obscene topics, or articles with a heavy bias (especially for subjective matters). I suggest beginning with topics that you know about, to keep research at a minimum, such as hobbies. If you enjoy knitting, write an article about what...

Could you give details on how CC is tarnishing your reputation?

Just to add to what SMichael said, you have to be earning enough of an income that it counts as a business and not a profit (or loss)-generating hobby. There's a few basic rules that I don't remember, but I wouldn't bother with trying to sort it all out unless freelancing is at least 10 or 20% of yo...

Article sales tend to be cyclic, so only looking over the last two or three months isn't enough to establish a permanent trend. From what I recall last year, March through May sold much better than June through August, then things ramped up again as we got closer to Thanksgiving and Christmas. It dr...

Errors do get through now and then, as the editors are only human and reading article after article can take its toll. I wouldn't hold it against the editors unless you've never made a slip or oversight.

There are no consequences for removing an article that I know of, but consider that you can list the article on other sites as long as you respect licensing. If an article sells for usage on one site, you can continue selling it for usage on another site (but not unique or full rights). Likewise, if...

.Txt is, by it's nature, completely unformatted so none of the formatting is saved. If you wanted to retain any formatting, you would also have to save it as a separate .rtf or .doc/.docx file. EXAMPLE: If I wrote this in Word: " This is a sentence that I may have written in Word . It contains ...

.txt is just plaintext, and is supported by every possible word processor (including Notepad). Word can save as a .txt, but remember that it will strip out absolutely everything that's not a character, space, tab or return. If you save it from Word, make sure you open it up in Notepad (or equivalent...

I use "however" fairly often (but never "nevertheless"). "But" is a good alternative in many contexts that can save you two syllables, so I think it's best to choose whichever one suits the flow of your article better. Unfortunately, English teachers the world around ha...

As far as the fear factor goes, remember that the forums are mostly for support and people tend to be much more vocal with negative experiences than positive experiences. The net result is that you will get a much more negative picture from the forums than actually exists. I'm not saying the editors...