Ten steps to acquiring your 15 minutes of fame – again and again.

Do you want to be famous? Or how about just get that hub score up to 100? In my first days on Hubpages I soared to 93 with only 12 hubs! How did that happen? Well, you could go look at my hubs and try to analyze them, but here's a shortcut – here's what I think worked.

My friend convinced me that I should try my hand at publishing my writing – she seems to think I am some sort of prodigy. Well, what do you know? So does Hubpages! Now I am working on figuring out what made my score go so high so that I can continue up to the top. Here are some things I have learned about myself and my writing so far.

1. Find unique ideas. Preferably your own. I googled and searched Hubpages before publishing my hubs, to make sure I wasn't duplicating someone else's efforts. I know that you can write what you want as long as there is not plagiarism, but who wants to read the same thing over and over again, even if it's said differently? Do something unusual – how outrageous can you be? I did things I considered outrageous or daring. People responded. I am still experimenting with what I can get away with.

2. Find a niche. Find your area and become a content expert. Do research. For example, I prefer writing about subjects that are personal and compelling to me (check my other hubs for examples), without adult content, without tragedy and without hurting anyone. Of course, if you are unethical and have no conscience, you can get your 15 minutes of fame in other ways, but then you wouldn't be here reading this.

3. Good Attention. Get good attention – it lasts longer and people like giving it to you because it gives them a good feeling too. That means they will be willing to give it to you more than once. Make people curious – make them smile, or laugh. That's good attention.

4. Build your fan club – personally respond to your early fans. Specifically answer their questions and give them good information. Give well written personal accounts. They will reward you by referring others to your site or hub.

5. Evoke strong emotions. Refer back to item 3. You can evoke strong negative or positive emotions. Unfortunately, humans are crisis oriented – we get more chemicals in our brains for negative events and so we tend to remember them more than good events. However, if a certain threshold is exceeded then people will remember something positive as well. Want an example? What's the best or funniest thing that ever happened to you? Most people will be able to respond, because they remember an event such as this as easily as they remember the worst thing that ever happened to them.

6. Write well. I don't mean that you have to have award winning style (though that helps) Use good grammar and a spell checker. While most people are forgiving of minor errors in a piece of writing, a badly written piece can go from irritating to unreadable in a few paragraphs.

7. Write more. Practice makes perfect. The more you write, the more your writing will improve. And the more you publish, the more you will know what people want to read.

8. Edit. This may sound sacrilegious, but the unpublish button is there for a reason. Be your own worst critic. If something isn't doing well, consider editing it, and if it doesn't meet your now high standards, trash it. I don't mean throw it away, just put it someplace where it isn't a public liability for you. Keep it for the ideas, but share only your best with your fans.

9. Read. The best way to improve what you write is to read more. Read what you like, but read authors who write well. Personally, I want to be able to write as well as Ursula LeGuin, or Charles deLint. These are some of my favorite fiction writers, and reading them has influenced even my non-fiction writing style.

10. Diversify. Write about different things. If you don't feel passionate about more than a couple of things, find different aspects of those things to write about. Or, better yet, learn something new and write about that. Your brain will thank you!

Do something unique. My first 15 minutes of fame came while I was a college freshman living away from home in the dorms. I was poor. I had arts and crafts materials brought from home, but my supply was dwindling and that was my stress reduction. I had model paints because I was an avid kit model builder in high school, but I had no money for models. As I was walking by the lake and looking at all the smooth rocks on the shore, an idea came to me – paint rocks. I began painting pictures on the rocks, and soon my room was filled with them. Argh! I knew I had to get rid of them, and just in time, the college advertised a crafts fair to be held in the student union.

Guess what? I was the only rock painter there! They thought it was so unusual that a newspaper came from the nearby city and did an interview and took pictures. By the next year I had moved on to other things, and it was a good thing that I had – that year there were at least half a dozen artists with painted rocks, and my fledgling skills would have been eclipsed.

A Niche. Mine are Crisis Intervention and Christmas, as well as Asperger's, Writing and Curiosity. I did research on Hubpages and the internet to find out what I could write about that was not duplicated. If there were too many articles on a thing then I focused on the personal side of that subject.

Good attention. I only write positive articles. Even if something negative has happened to me, I try to put a positive spin on it. And I work to make people laugh.

Build your fan club. I work to respond quickly to people's comments, and I make sure that my response is personal. If I am asked questions, I answer them. If I am asked to make a hub, I work on it and get it up as quickly as possible. And I go to others' hubs and respond appropriately and honestly.

Evoke strong emotion. Right now the strongest emotion I am evoking is curiosity. That can be very strong, especially if you are writing about something new or unknown. Few people know about helping people in crisis, so my hub on crisis intervention got a lot of attention from the moment it went up.

Write well/write more. I have been writing extensively since I was a child, and I continue to write many pages of material in a week. Practice makes perfect.

Edit. This is the hard part for me. I have gone back to my hubs and edited them, and there are some on my list of possible takedowns. I want the best quality, and I hope my fans appreciate it. Of course, if they object to a hub being taken down I will put it back....

Read. I read a little less than I used to because I am not near a library, but I have discovered the world of internet books and soon I will be back to reading a few hundred pages a week.

Diversify. (Smile) This article represents part of my effort to diversify.

One last tip – if you are looking for hubpages fame, cultivate the characteristics of a good storyteller, and you will have a whole other set of skills to propel you to hubpages and internet fame! I am open for suggestion, if you have achieved your moment of fame and want to share your how tos, give me a holler and a comment!