Writing an article is not a difficult task for the one who knows to write tenses correctly. An article could be easily handled if you have written all the key points before writing it. From those key points you can easily write it in your desired length. While writing a writer should always remember that one should not go beyond the topic. One should also remember that article is neither a speech not a story so one should not use wrong format.
Now for the steps to create an excellent article, i would recommend you the best of my skills. Step one is to find a topic which suits you. This means that you should write article on that topic which is easy for you and a topic about which you have enough knowledge. You can use books to find a topic for your article or you can make it from your mind. The next step is to read about that topic from different books. Extract as much information as you can for the creation of your article. By reading articles from different books you would be able to develop your own style of writing which would be the mixture of writing styles you get from different books. after gathering enough information make a plan for writing your article. In your plan you must choose article length and paragraphs. The most important step is to write key points of the article. Those key points would help you later when you write your article. You can just expand those points into paragraphs and can add additional information related to that paragraph. After writing key points you can start writing article.
Start your article with some informational stuff related to that topic. You can write advantages or disadvantages of that topic or you can write words said by someone else you could use any starting style. Yet remember that you should not start between the mid of your topic because in this way you would not be able to write within your desired length. Also it would look crap and no one would like to read such a messy article. You must have heard these lines that First impression is your last impression. So this is the case here. If you succeed to get the attention of your reader from the first paragraph you could impress the writer from first paragraph for further reading. In the second paragraph write clearly on the topic and remember to stick with the topic. Explain everything in this paragraph or you can use another paragraph as body of the article. In the last paragraph you must close the topic in such a way that writer would love to read it again and it would leave a beautiful impression on one's mind.
In article writing the most easiest and important thing is key points creation. writer can skip spell checking but cannot skip key points step. so remember this steps while writing article.
