Do you find it hard, some days, to focus on MyLot?

this is one of the main reasons that i gave up mylot for quite a while..it's more than an year i think. with the mylot community getting bigger and bigger,new people had no idea what this site is all about,so they were just posting a huge number of discussions with meaningless subjects,the most common was hello everybody how are you?..or..i am new here,just wanna say hello, or what did you eat today?..and that would not be the worst thing,but the discussions were simply like that: 'how are you?'... and that's all,they didn't even try to write somethingelse. and secondly, one word answers started to appear more often, or even copy-pasted one. people kept adding me as friends but they never participated in my discussions,or even theirs.. it all became frustrating so i backed off. now i just open it to see what's new,i used to spend hours here,and kept posting and posting..i must say the earnings are not great also..i mean,ok, we don't do it especially for the money and if you find interesting discussions you really like to reply but... all gathered made it not be so pleasant anymore. and i also don't have as much spare time as before,i guess that is a reason too. but to answer to your question,yes,it has happened to me many times,and i really tried hard to find interesting discussions, and also happened to find one but can't find my words to give a proper answer so i gave up. it's a normal thing to happen,i guess:)

its not a daily work or something for me to focus..i juz log in when i am free

I was like this overnight on Fri/Sat., jerzgirl. I was typing away at discussions in my inbox. When I got caught up, I was then hunting for more to respond to. I went thru 10 pages and only found one that interested me. Talk about bored out of my mind.. I had nothing to say to warrant starting my own discussion either.

I've been out of the mood to mylot lately, don't know why. I've spent the last 3 days in the 7 dollar range. I did make about 50 cents yesterday, that's the most I've made in over a week. I've been in the mood to play games, bad I know....

I understand what you mean about writer's block. I am a member of a writing site where I have written about 10 articles. I think the last one I wrote was in September of last year. Since then, I have started writing about other topics there and either can't think of anything or write a little bit and then get stuck. I like myLot because I don't have to think too hard about what I'm writing. Here, I don't have to write a minimum amount of words. Just a few lines will do me fine. Also, I like that I am responding to what others have written. I don't like responding to discussions that have been started with only a question (but I have to only a few) or the writers will ask How about you? The majority of the time, these writers don't even write their own opinion of what they ask about!! For the last few days, I've been kind of wandering around here trying to think of what I could start a discussion about. Most of the discussions already here are pretty much re-runs. So I keep checking back to see if something will catch my eye. I'm sure I will start a discussion and respond to about ten of them, also.

Hi jerzgirl, I share your troubles this week. But I have been stuck on $7 all week. I'm starting to wonder if I'll even see $10. this month. I feel like I just don't have anything to contribute to most of the discussions I see, as it is already there or the discussion didn't appeal to me as much as the title of it did. I do hope I hit the minimum by the end of the month though. It feels impossible at this rate.

I hit $10+ a few days ago, but then three of my discussions were deleted and my earnings reduced the last couple of days, so I went back to $9. It's finally over the $10 mark and I'm just here biding time to keep adding to my earnings. I don't think I'll be starting any new discussions for some time (at least my star rating stayed intact!)

I have days like that too. Sometimes I think maybe cause I'm just plain not in the mood to really go full swing at MyLot like I usually do, or it could be after a long day, scanning photos, retouching them, writing an article, so by the time I get here I just plain too tired..LOL. I usually make up for it the next day though...So far I'm all caught up with all my current discussions I've started and made replies to...So right now,just hunting around for discussions to reply to..like yours

Yes, there are times when I find it hard to focus on myLot. For the past few days, I have not really started any discussions because I can't think of any good topic to work on. Well, I just did today. Anyway, I do have issues about some discussions posted here too. Like there are so many discussions started by other people but it seems like I do not really have that much to say to most of those discussions.

There are many days when I am so tired from the days work and I also think it depends on whether or not you have other things on your mind too that are distracting you from having a good time here with all the things that you can write about. I think I write best when I am relaxed and do not have so much worries and stress on my mind. I enjoy being able to write freely without distractions too. Sometimes if my partner is home, well that can be a bit of a situation that prevents me sometimes from even coming online. I mean he just does not allow me to think clearly because he constantly talks to me and distracts me in other ways too. I think maybe he wants to be online too or feels like I am talking to someone on here, I know what it is, perhaps a jealously factor I don't know about.

I know what you mean when you say you don't want to add short answers and sometimes it is difficult to find enough discussions where you can give a good response. I look through my friends discussions and if there are not many new ones to interest me I usually have a look in top discussions and hot topics. If I find nothing there I will look under some of my interests. I can usually find some nice discussions to respond to. If not I will do something else and return to myLot later, when some more discussions will have appeared.

Yes, at certain times, I do.. When I tend to get like this, I will leave myLot and come back until my mind is very cleared. That way, I can come back to post as much as I can..

Yes. Though I'm still fairly new to this site, I am beginning to find it difficult to focus on it and offer anything worth reading. My head is empty at the moment re: starting up new topics for discussion, and I can only respond to anything that really catches my eye (like your post has just done lol). I find I'm tending not to (apart from here) respond to discussions that have more than about 8 responses, as I feel that I maybe have nothing original to add to the thread which hasn't already been said. Maybe it's a bit of writer's block? Not sure yet lol.

Geez, that must be awful? You have over 500 posts and it's hard to believe that you haven't hit hight than the $10 mark. I've just hit 100 posts and I already have a little over two dollars. In that week time, three days I did almost no posting at all. I predict that I will have over $10 once I hit 500 posts. However, I do find it terribly hard at times to come up with a new discussion or come up with responses and comments. You make prefect sense. I think that we should take short breaks from mylot to clear our minds and have some peace.

it is like that for me at this moment. i am very much worried about my dad's health. then there si lot of work to do. so even if i get some time also, i just can't concentrate on mylot.

This happens sometimes to me. I like to find discussions I am interested in and want to leave a good response, not just a few lines. I sometimes spend more time looking around than I do posting but that is okay somedays. I try to find discussions to respond to and if I don't I have learned to just come back later or the next day when I can find a discussion I feel like responding to or have a few ideas for starting a discussion. I usually think of what I can start a discussion about when I am driving so lately I have been writing it down for later.

I have found that the last three days I have had no interest to be on MyLot or the computer for that matter. I was trying to get motivated to do anything but with little success. I mostly lounged around and did a little cleaning that's it. The end of the month is comeing and now that I only have a matter of days to reach my goal I need to put a move on it and get there. I believe I can do this and shall put this into turbo nitrious style and go. I am not the type to get this way but I was for the past three days and it bugged me. I am back in the full swing of things again and I will win in the end.

Hi I may some times to feel it is hard to do any thing not only myLotting. But in other days I can interestingly participate in discussions. usually I will read all the responses for those discussion which I feel interesting. On such time when I may not feel to participate in discussions,I don't do any thing to overcome that. It may pass and resolve by itself and the next day I will be able to do things in a much better way.

I don't think that you can have a writer's block here on myLot because your performance is somehow dependent on how actively others are participating. Lately, I haven't been able to come up with new discussions, so I just try answering what other people write. If you've been stuck in the $9 range for a while now, I'm sure you'll be able to break through to $10 pretty soon! Just keep your head up friend! You're almost near payout, that should try to motivate you. :)

It happens... for the past few days I did not reply to anything or start any discussions. Just read through the posts and comments, as I feel that forced comments are just no fun to write and post. Rather do it when I have the 'inspiration' to do so. Hope you got your writer's block over and got your $10 bucks already. :)