Do you write on Helium?

I made a few dollars in my first few months at Helium, then in the past week I won $40 in a writing contest and I sold a Marketplace article for $20. My total earnings are now nearly $80 and I have requested my first payout. I'm writing more now for Helium contests and Marketplace and I'm still adding articles to my list. My daily revenue earnings have increased since I got four rating stars. I'm planning to get paid every month from Helium from now. I can do it if I continue selling articles and winning in contests, in addition to daily earnings from my article list. In addition to the money I learn a lot from writing at Helium. I learn interesting things from my own research for articles, and from reading articles as I rate. I'm learning to write to publishers' requirements, and how to include keywords. It's all good practice, and I think it adds to my writing skills.

Hi. I joined Helium last year and have only just started writing for them. I have so far submitted 10 articles and have to say I too am completely flummoxed over the earnings on there. So far I have one article at 1 ranking, which cheered me more than any possible earnings. I have not had any direct feedback from users as yet, and wondered where is the best place to get it from? Do people leave feedback in the community part? As for earnings on there, I can see it is going to be a long, slow process and for very little rewrd financially. It is however a great site for seeing how well your srticles do, and boosting self esteem. I don't use it daily, but enter it quite regularly, mainly to submit poems. I would be glad of some feedback comments from others though.

I write on Helium because it is a great place to network with other writers and get feedback on my work to improve my skills. The pay is not a lot, but the other benefits make it worth the effort. Plus, you retain non exclusive rights to all of your work there, which means you can publish it elsewhere as long as the other place knows it is not exclusive and is ok with that.

I've been writing on Helium for a year now. And I can honestly say that my efforts are going unnoticed. I don't know how to attract more people to read my stuff. I've tried the blog thing, but so far no good. I honestly have no idea why the reward is so little. I'm still trying to keep my interest in tact.

I write for Helium but only in poetry. However I still don't understand their points system. Worst, their categorical system is confusing.

The pay for writers is low across the board, not just at Helium. Unless you are writing for some of the top magazines (which often only accept agented submissions) or have a decently-selling book on the market, it is difficult to make a good living off of writing. The good thing is, we retain rights to our work published on Helium (unlike Triond, which I had looked at).

it is because there are so many writers out there right now. when i started in writing about 5 years ago, writing for the web was very new and i was making really good money, but not anymore.