Ok, I'm in a brutal struggle with the first sentence. Like, when you know everything you are going to write down, but somewhat uncertain about how to start. Like, the first couple of sentences is a punchline, like in a fairy tale "Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom lived a beautiful princess disguised as a panda," So, here I need to sum up what essentially I'm going to say. At the same time, maybe, I'll develop some method that would make this whole process less time and energy consuming.
Ok, let's break it down. The article is about IP marketplace, so the introductory paragraph is going to explain why we sometimes need more IP than one. It's not that difficult. On the other hand, a couple of the very first sentences are supposed to express this idea in even more condensed form. This is where it gets tricky. For example, if I wrote about flowers, I would start like "Every day we see flowers, without consciously realizing how important this process is for us," Something like that. With IP addresses it's less obvious. How would I express in one sentence this longing of SEO specialists for large inexpensive IP pools. Initially, I started like "IP address is one of the basic fundamental things on the Internet. It uniquely identifies each participant on the network." And so on. It kinda led me nowhere because then I need to gradually swerve to the explanation of why we need more IPs than one, and it's kinda awkward. As if I start writing the introduction once again. Ok, maybe in this case it would make sense to start straight from that point about those people who need many IP addresses to begin with. Like, "For SEO specialists and people harvesting information it's important to have many IP addresses" It sounds clumsy and bad, and I also realize that at this point I try to think simultaneously about the content and how it should be expressed. It's multitasking, and multitasking is hard. So, probably it would make sense to split this task into two: First, I clarify for myself what exact point I'm going to make. Making it about SEO specialists and information harvesting is not good either, because then I need to add something about VPNs, privacy, and regional restrictions, which kinda isn't connected to SEO and information harvesting.
At this point I realize that this first sentence should somehow span all those points (SEO, VPNs, privacy, regional restrictions, crawlers, etc.), and, at the same time, it shouldn't be about any of those things in particular. And it shouldn't be about what IP address is, because it's kinda dumb. So, what all those things have in common?
"Sometimes to have one IP address isn't enough"
"Many people need many IP addresses for various purposes"
Ok, I have an idea, I'm going to return to the original punchline
"IP address is a sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies each computer on the Internet. IP address can be used to track malicious users. Search engines track IP addresses of the visitors and frequency of their requests to reveal and block bots and crawlers. Media companies use IP to restrict access to their content for the users from certain regions. User IP can be used by hackers as a target at which he directs DDoS attack.
There are many scenarios, in which we might think, that we need to use different IP than our own. Like, IP located in a different country, IP traffic from which couldn't be traced back to us, or IP belonging to the system that can withstand hacker attacks."
Ok, it can be the introductory paragraph. Further, I'll start to elaborate about SEO, IP pools, information harvesting, and so on. Also, while I was quickly writing it I didn't care much about form, so I wouldn't lose the track of my thoughts, trying to figure out how exactly each sentence should sound. Now, when I outlined this first paragraph in general, I can ponder, and ruminate, smoke, drink coffee, and think how all this should be phrased, so it would sound more or less decent. Without the risk of forgetting in the process what I wanted to say to begin with.