I did it! I did it!

haha Mommaj got bad memory oh. Are you born in the wolf cave or black bear cave? Maybe if you think hard, you will remember oh. That's good idea for an article "how to remember where I was born?". Another article on "how to get the worms out of my brain?", rewrite the article as "how to improve your memory by getting the lazy worms out of your brain?" These three titles will keep you busy for half a day oh

The first article for ac should be what to do on a staycation in La. or if you're close enough MS. Can't remember which one of those states you live in, SORRY. I get forgetful - I'ld say it's old age but I don't remember when I was born. I am glad you are finding titles to write to on Helium. That should help your writing score and upfront payments for sure. I can't wait for next month to find out if I will have time to write to Helium. Good luck with payout.

Hey MommaJ how goes the vacation with the kids? I will have my vacation from the job in a few weeks but it will have to be a staycation because I won't be seeing a paycheck in the interim :-( With any luck I will come up with some great articles to sell to AC for upfront payments!

Thanks Scheng1! I noticed my score got better after I added articles to empty titles so I will have to make it a practice to do so every time it dips below 90%. This way I should be able to keep the writing stars in tact, yes?

Hi Canellita, I have no comment on adding article to empty title and writing score. Right now, I have more than a hundred articles, so any difference in writing score is not noticeable. I did read somewhere that writing to empty title can increase writing score, but some writers in forum said not, so it is very confusing.

I read it somewhere in the earning pages in my helium and I noticed that my score did change so maybe there is something to it but only with a certain volume of articles. Perhaps is is the ratio of empty titles or the ranking of the articles. I just look forward to having that third star to help my earnings.

Hey stranger! Long time no talk to! Did your daughter have her baby yet?

hi thanx for the concern-but that is how it is-Helium considers India as one of non-english speaking country-yeah she has written abt 5 articles for hubpages-but i feel following ur advice she shud use hubpages as launch pad to launch offensive against Helium.

What??? How could India not be an English speaking country? The ENGLISH people were there long enough... That is unfortunate that she had that experience. Are you certain her location in India was the only reason? Many websites are taking issue with where their writers are located it seems. Has she tried hubpages?

Launching an offensive against helium will not cause them to change their policies. She should just continue to write and look for other avenues. Has she tried Daily Article?

hi canellita, thanks for the comment/response

hi canellita, i wish to start with helium,i do not know i have joined helium or not,if not i will join today,but my sincere request is please,do teach me every thing in helium,so that i can also earn some thing in hilium through your help,i am sending you a message also requesting the same,have a nice day

Thank you very much for your words of encouragement!

WOW Canelitta thank you so very much for all of this very valuable information! I really appreciate it! It would have taken me forever to figure all of this out so I am sure that my first month will probably be better than yours was with all of this! I think it is great when someone knows information and are willing to share it!

I think so too and that is why I am grateful to Scheng1 for all of her useful information and encouragement. Were it not for her advice I might not have continued with helium. The day I saw that first penny accrue to my earnings was the day my attitude began to change, lol. I think helium is a great means for developing passive income.

Thanks for that wonderful wish for my not having to leave home in the future to work! I had been working on something a while back and then came hurricane Katrina and messed everything up! Fortunately teaching part-time tides me over enough to continue my creative endeavors. You may find helium a bit frustrating at first; if you do sign up you will receive an email encouraging you to post your firat article within 7 days to get a $5 bonus. To start earning right away you will want to contribute three articles to competitive titles in order to earn your first WRITING star and you will want to rate as many articles a day as you have time for in order to earn your first RATING star. One rating star means you get paid. One or more WRITING stars indicate how much you get paid. Every time you write an article to an "empty" title with no articles you qualify for an upfront payment of at least $1. (More writings stars equals more of an upfront payment.) This upfront payment will appear on the earnings page in the my helium section on the first of every month. The reason you have to submit articles that are considered competitive is that helium has a peer rating system which it uses to calculate your writing score and if there are no other articles but yours in particular titles people can't vote yours to be better. Only 10% have to be competitive though so the more empty titles you compose articles for, the more upfronts you get and the better (and more stable) your writing score. One thing I just learned this past week is that helium has a fiscal month that ends on the 25th of the month. This is the cutoff date for posting new articles for upfront payments so post as much as you can as early as you can in the month. You can still try and qualify for the $3 rating bonus though if you rate 500 articles in a month. If I had known all of these things when I started out it would have been a completely different experience for me! I have learned a lot from the helium writers here at myLot, particularly from Scheng1. She also encouraged me to stick with helium after my first month was so frustrating.

nope I have not found anything at all.

Thanks! How is your housing situation? Have you found a place to move into yet?

I got the 5 rating stars because I really pushed to make it to 500 rates in order to get the bonus. I haven't rated nearly as much this time around but the stars have remained intact (so far). I can not believe you have so many articles and only 1 writing star! That seems incredible to me. Are you submitting a lot to creative writing titles?

Did you ever think you'd be making money online doing something that you like? lol.

That's exactly why I decided to try helium!

Thanks! I really enjoy writing it is something I have always been drawn to.

Thanks! Have you tried writing to empty titles? It seemed to help my score this past week.

I didn't know about all that when I started so I wrote to three empty titles and then figured out I needed to go back and do three more to competitive titles. Grrrrr... Suddenly I had two writing stars though they would fluctuate the first month and that drove me nuts because I didn't understand why. It was disheartening but Scheng1 encouraged me to keep going so I did. I decided to focus on helium exclusively for a bit and now I am trying to get that third star. I have heard there havee been some recent changes in the rules regarding rating and writing stars and payments but I don't quite follow all of that. Someone else could explain it much better than I could ever hope to do.

I can try that, but I thought it only "counted" if you already have one writing star. Thank you for the idea :) Karen

Perhaps you can write articles in your own language and then someone else could help you to translate them to English?

It is! I wonder why I didn't get an email notification of your response. Oh well, I recently got the 4th writing star so I am very happy about that.

Yeah, we've been discussing about the 'notification' that failed to notify us for any new response or comment. Anyway, you're making a progress and that's something to be happy about. Well done, Canellita!

Maybe it got lost among my other emails but I did find you! Come to think of it, I am not sure I got a notificiation for your last comment but it showed up in my "started" page as the last one recorded.

I don't think anyone has the time to post 30 articles in a day! The most I can usually manage is 3! Sometimes I can push it to 4 or 5 if I have the entire day free.

Don't quite follow you...

I have just posted article number 102 (finally). My computer was out of commission for a while and my posting was significantly affected and I lost a writing and a rating star. I still managed to get to payout though so that was a lucky break. I would have had at least an additional $15 if I had kept those two stars. Do you know about the rating bonus?

I write about any and everything I can. I try to have a diverse collection in order to earn the most. The ones that are paying best for me are craft and education. I wish I knew something about finance though because it is one of the better paying channels.