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I think I touched a chord with my post on perfection and procrastination. I’ve gotten lots of comments about it both online and off. Chris Knight of EzineArticles just put a post up on his blog about Perfection Paralysis.

If you are writing articles to promote yourself (and you really should be), there is no better place to post them than EzineArticles. EZA gets more visitors than any other article site on the Internet.

Writing articles is a great way to get read by new people and get them to click back to your website. EZA allows you to put a link in your bio  (they call it a resource box). Put the URL of your blog or website and invite your readers to learn more about you.

Also, webmaster for other sites can copy your article to their own site as long as they keep your resource box with the article. This can increase your exposure.

Using articles for promotion is a numbers game. You want a lot of articles out there working for you. Lots of good articles will get you more notice than a few almost perfect articles.

Here are some tips when writing articles

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A belated Father’s Day to all the Dads! That’s one of the toughest, yet most important,  job in the world. One of my favorite memories of my childhood is sitting with  my father as he read to me. He claimed that of my first phrase was READ IT! That’s probably why I came to love words and books at a very early age.

I vividly remember some of the stories we read. We read Heidi right after I broke my arm and couldn’t move around much because of the heavy cast. He read the comics to me every night when he was home. He traveled on business a lot, so I really missed our sessions while he was gone.

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In the middle of my little village on the Oregon coast, a park perches on the headland jutting into the ocean along the edge of the bay.  Three white lines stand out on the concrete sidewalk.

The sun setting into the Pacific

These lines have significance on only four days of the year.

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