Could you write more than 900 articles?

Yes, you make a good point! I am looking at the number and being overwhelmed in admiration, and you are making me see that I could accomplish that myself if I would just buckle down and write. My own personal goal is to increase my page views and number of articles in the new year. It's really a challenge for me to start writing. Once I get the article under way, I can do ok. However, I do everything to procrastinate before I start.

MommaJ, I am definitely working on improving my output for the new year! I have been trying all year just to get to 300 articles on Helium for the extra star. Current count: 282.

LOL. I am actually the same way. I go to the refrigerator, don't see anything I want. I sit down in front of the computer. I have to have water, so I get back up. I get the water and sit again just to find that wasn't enough water. Back for more water. Sit down. OH NO. Now I have to go to the bathroom. LOL Anything, you just need a little kick in the rump. I know you can do it. I am making about $45 in page views the past couple of months. The reason is from all the seasonal articles I wrote last year. LOL Wish I had more time this year to do that. Could you imagine the pv money. I know there are a lot more people on there that are doing a lot better than me on pv payments. Anything, I bet if you set a goal for yourself you could start writing a couple of articles a day. That other person wouldn't be able to compete with your writings. Good luck.

Yes, Zed is right. I would assume that Australians can participate, but with only being paid for page views (not upfront payments like writers in the US), it may not be the most worthwile writing site for you. Still, I do a lot of re-posting there. In other words, posting articles I have written somewhere else just for the page views. You might consider that.

Yoiu are right. I checked myself. Australians dont get paid for articles, only for page views which Im not interested in.

You can be paid for page views.. roughly 1000 impressions equate to $1.50 in earnings. You can always read in AC's' FAQ for more..

I know whom you are referring to. I've never actually read her stuff (the doctor), but it always makes me wonder why she devotes her time to AC? I would think that she is way, way too busy to find time to write there, and particularly so much! Go figure. Me, I've got plenty of time, and I can't even get one article a day up. Well, it'll be different next year. (Wink, wink) Sorry about your own slump, I am in a perpetual one. I am a terrible procrastinator. Once I actually start writing, I can usually finish. It's the beginning that drives me nuts and makes me run the other direction every time!

well that is really good to write that much. i plan to write as many as i can but i don't have much knowledge. i have started to write in bukisa. i think that AC is quite strict in grammar. and so i may not have my articles get published on that one. so i will just stick with bukisa. and so i started only this week. and i am finding it really fun to talk about topics that i am already familiar with. i will just put into writing some of the knowledge that i gained through the years i have been online. hope to reach thousands articles soon too.

I know who you are talking about, the dr is really good and I don't know how she can have the time to write that much. She's an inspiration. She can write so many articles and still have a career.

On the Associated Content site, you can leave comments or give it a thumb's up, but it is not like Helium, where people give your article a ranking. I hate that aspect of Helium myself. AC depends more on outside viewing, although it helps to have friends reading your articles, of course, because you are paid for page views. Without readers, no one can really do well on a writing site online.

I dislike places were ratings are based on popularity and how many friends you have instead of purely on ability. Were popularity ratings and not page views influence pay, it really sucks.

I agree with cat lady. I don't like helium the way people are supposed to rate others. Do you have any luck with that? I like how it is at ac though. You know I am one of their biggest fans. LOL

Yes, we can work on a New Year's writing and motivation plan together! All I want from Santa is some inspiration!

I can't wait. I want to start reading at least two articles a day from you. Maybe if we could all motivate each other somehow it will help our output.

Don't ask scheng for any of her writing ghosts. The ones she gave me aren't doing a very good job. LOL

I know they accept contributers from outside of the United States but I don't know if they accept contributers from Spain. It could be worth reading their terms of service and finding out. They pay through paypal so it is more likely that they would allow contributers from other countries that they trusted. I would imagine Spain would be among them. It is worth checking out.

I know that they have writers from the UK, so I am assuming that they take writers from Spain, but you would have to email them and check. People writing from outside the United States, however, only make money from page views, no upfront payment of articles. There is another site, Bukisa, that is more international in orientation. You might want to check that site as well.

Hi anythingart, I´ve got back to you a bit later than I wanted to but thank you so much for the information. I appreciate their Rules it looks very much like it is through page views that you might get paid. I have looked at Bhukisa also. Again Art thanks for your information.

I think it took her a couple of years, but I am still impressed when I compare it with my own output. I hope to write more next year, and need to work out a plan. As an earlier poster noted, even if you just write one article a day, in 3 years, you would have 900 articles. It still seems like a mountain of writing to me, but I guess the trick is not to look at it like that!

I haven't been writing much either cwilson..I don't know about you but I've been going through a real writer's slump and it ticks me off..LOL

I think you just have to set your mind to doing something and doing it. I am going through a not writing spell too. Mine lasted a couple of months now. LOL This is a bad time of year for me. For some reason everything is happening at once here. I was supposed to be writing now while my kids are quiet, but instead I was fooling around on mylot. LOL

Yes, I find it very inspirational and hope to improve on my own numbers next year. I think that's a good New Year's resolution. The residual income is great because you are making your articles work for you long after you finished writing them, and never have to do another thing to them once they are completed. If only writing were easy....

Thank you ladies. If only writing could be so easy as answering posts like in mylot, then it can be done super fast, lol. But of course, it's not as easy as that, I'd expected much. $30 per month for a residual income is also not bad at all. Anything extra is good and cool. So articles are continuing to churn out page views earnings no matter the period and that's really awesome..

Hi zed, I think she has said she averages about $30+ a month in page views. She writes for other sites as well. Some of the sites she just reposts her articles from AC. She is making money this holiday season from articles she wrote last year for the holidays. She is still writing. She just hasn't been writing as much from what I have seen.

I am a slow writer myself. It's not the actual writing that takes me so long, usually it is the research ahead of time. Still, it all hampers my progress in publishing them. I am trying to come up with a new plan for the New Year.

I don't know about AC, but heilum has a bunch of empty titles for "Things to do in XYZ town, US in Winter" and every other season and during the holidays and so forth. I saw your museum review, maybe there are other attractions you can write about in your home town. There are plenty of ideas you can get just looking around at home.

i don't have account in AC and helium. only in bukisa. with 4 articles already. and in triond, one article. is triond a good site.

hmmm, that's actually very easy, just ask the ghosts to haunt you in the dreams. Ask them to give you nightmares, such as seeing all the tortures, hearing all the screams, so that you have to wake up and write articles. Maybe can ask them to spank you from head to toe, so that you are painful all over and can't sleep anymore. After you finish ten articles per day, then they will let you sleep oh. At this rate, you will write 3650 articles per year, and your cave will be full of shining golden coins from writing.

mmmmmmm. Pretty. I already feel sore in the morning. Maybe that is why? Hope they stop soon. I have too much to do to write right now. LOL

Ghosts eat sooooo much! They better start doing their job and either inspire writing or write for me. LOL I did make it to clout 10 before the end of the year.

You should be proud of your accomplishment! You are really an inspiration! As you can see from the comments here, people are impressed; I was too when I saw how many articles you had. You have given me a goal to strive toward. I am not sure what year I will get to 900, but it's all about writing one article at a time, time after time. Where is Scheng? I was waiting for her sassy comments about this post! You've gotten off way too easy this time around!

I must admit I was surprised at all the positive comments because there are so many people doing so much better on AC than I am. Some of them have such high page views. I have gotten off way too easy in this discussion. I have wondered where scheng was for a couple of days. I miss her funny comments on my articles. After reading her comments I have to laugh.

Oh, that writer! She is kind of obsessive compulsive you know! (heh heh) And she is VERY STUBBORN so once she makes up her mind that she has to write or die it all just comes flowing out. I am sure it helps that she has VERY flexible work hours.

This is MommaJ...are you surprised? I was reading an article of hers on AC, and just happened to glance at her number of articles! I tried not to name her because I wasn't sure if she would get mad, but since she hasn't and since she has made plenty of comments on this post, I think I can safely let the cat out of the bag. She wrote 900+ over two years. I just can't match that consistency, myself. I am lucky to get one article a day written. I have some new writing goals for the New Year, but it will be interesting just to see if I can increase my article numbers over the next year. I feel like the turtle, except in this case, slow and not so steady is not winning any races!

Alright Canellita! Get on the ball. You can't win another Helium contest if you aren't writing to them. This is December and I bet you have all kinds of interesting things going on to write about. Anything, I don't get mad about much. LOL I bet you can easily write a few articles. Honestly, my writing over this year has slacked off quite a bit because of the unforeseen variables that keep popping up. Last year I easily wrote 3 to 4 articles a day in Nov. and Dec.(inspiration was I needed money. LOL) This year I haven't been doing as much, but I would like to get back into the swing of things. I could still really use the money, but the kids keep getting sick, I am taking them to different appointments, and then there are just things that have to be done. LOL Sounds like an excuse to me.

Woman what are you talking about? When did I win the first helium contest? You had better stop eating that cave dirt! School is out Friday and I am trying to do one more holiday sale. After that I am done until January and can write until my fingers drop off. Just you wait, the new year just may bring that pretty blue bonus star!

Yes, she writes about interesting topics, particularly raising kids, decorating, those kinds of topics. Stories take longer to write than articles, so you really shouldn't compare. I write both, and I think it takes much, much longer to write fiction than nonfiction articles like on AC. Good luck with your writing!

She doesn't write stories, but she does write articles. They don't have a "rating" system on AC. She does pretty well on page views. You would have to read her articles to determine for yourself.

I thought you could still post stuff for page views on AC if you were outside the U.S. Are there restrictions for certain countries?

I think 240 is a pretty great number for AC, but that's just me. At least I know I would be happy to have that number. I know what you mean about finding new topics. Then AC puts out all these Call for Content requests (with no upfront payments), so that if anyone comes up with a new topic, they have already suggested it. They are tricky that way!

MommaJ, you have all the tricks down. I think you have an inside line with Associated Content. Someone there really likes you...or maybe they really need parenting articles. Maybe I need to rent some kids??

HA! I wish. We have our issues. I do let them know what I think sometimes. LOL My payment will reflect it. It goes down accordingly. LOL

I don't think they were written in a single day, but probably over a couple of years. Still, think of writing a minimum of 400 words on 900 different topics. It still blows your mind! Or at least mine!

I am just re-reading this discussion and the thought of the cavewoman doing all that in one day sends hilarious images to mind of superspeedy typing!

She writes mostly about raising kids and decorating your house, really things that most people could write about (well, except me, who has no kids). I think the key is to look at what's in the news, what people are talking about, what is happening in your own life. Or, if you are like me, write about what you enjoy (for me, it's art, travel, and books). I can't keep up with the rate of 3 per day, but many people seem to do it easily. Good luck in your writing. What do you mostly write about?

If you scroll through the first couple pages of this discussion you'll see the answers to your questions about the writer in question. You can get to 900 articles in about a year's time if you average 3 per day. Try doing book reviews since you already write critically.

Hey, I don't have kids either but I know enough about them to write articles! Did you ever babysit? Do you have siblings? Did you have parents?

I think the best thing to do is try and compete with yourself. You know in your own mind when you have finished a great article or written a certain number of words. Too much reliance on the outside world would mean that many of the world's classic novels ever got written. All those authors suffered so much rejection before someone took their books. Or like Van Gogh, who never sold a painting in his life, except to his own brother.

That's good. I am not saying we don't enjoy praise for our writing when it comes along, or that we don't enjoy getting paid for our writing too. It's just that the core reason to write must come from within. It's a field with a lot of rejection. It seems like this year I wrote more than ever, and was rejected more than ever. It's hard to keep a balance sometimes. Recently, I've gotten a lot of nice comments, which makes it all worthwhile, but you got to be able to weather the ups and downs of writing. Do you have new writing goals for 2010?

Hiya Anythingart, I don´t rely on the outside world for that I only need myself but what I see I use for inspiration that´s it.

Don't be discouraged. I am coming full circle on this post. I am like you, only posting a couple of articles a week, but I am going to try harder in the New Year. Not sure what year it will be when I reach 900, but it's a good goal to aim for. She is not the only one who has that many articles on AC either!

I know she has made upfronts for most of the articles, so I guess they are reader worthy. LOL She has said at one point she was writing four articles a day for five days while her kids were at school. She has been a member of AC since Feb 15, 2008. A lot of other people write more articles than she does. They send in about 10 articles a day. I don't know how anyone can do that. It's crazy. I guess they just stay focused and keep on writing. I wish to write more articles like they do.

I wonder if those people who write ten articles per day have sofware that helps them to generate these articles. There are all kinds of writing tools out there. I wish I could crank out 5 a day for even just four days a week and 1 or 2 a day on the weekends. 5 a day for 6 days would be 120 in just 4 weeks! That would probably boost my passive helium income to over $20 a month!

I think it's the sign of a true writer that she can accomplish so much! I aspire to do that myself some day, but I am hopelessly lazy about it.

Hmmm, you're right about the crazy part! And stubborn too! (she knows I love her)

I think that sports must be a great topic to write about (if you like it) because there is always something going on with teams, players, games. And people really like to read about sports as well. Good choice!