Anyone Besides Me Getting that End-of-Month Writing Panic?

What? Did someone actually mention their "real life"? lol It's good to get here (end of the month) and feel that you have already accomplished enough. I made a little progress yesterday and hope to make a little more today with wrapping things up. I swear next month I am going to get ahead, but by the time the new month arrives, I am burned out from the end of the month push. Can't win by my system.

Well Sandra has inspired me so I hope to climb the charts at Helium next month. I just need to be sure to keep some time and energy for other sites and getting stuff done around the house.

Oh no! Here's a little irony for you. I finally get air conditioning in the house and the one in the car conks out! You think we're in some full moon weirdness net?

Yes, I am a big procrastinator. And I really got burned this month because my computer got a virus and shut down completely. I had to take it in to get repaired and ended up losing one of my AC guaranteed articles and losing money from promoting my articles on Gather. I just bought a new laptop last night, but it needs an external modem as I still have dial up. Once I get that I will be back in business. It's been a frustrating past 6 days! Now I am already behind for the month. I am like the rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland" I'm late, I'm late.

Hi Art, you are getting as bad as Mommaj already! Why you never think of backing up the article in the first place? Just set up two email addresses and send from one email to another. I think you can still write on paper and transfer the articles online when you have the laptop. If you have lived in Singapore, I would have dragged you to the Internet cafe or library to do work. I wont let you hide in Mommaj's cave. Hurry up and write! I think you need to set your personal deadline earlier. I thought I have cooked the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland?

What??? You cooked the rabbit? Have you been hanging out with MommaJ in that cave?

It's good to be able to write without these presures and instead spread your writing out over the month! Good luck with your continued writing success.

Good luck with your writing, There's always next month to make a good showing!

Good luck! I am 7 cents awat, but the way my luck is running, I am not getting my hopes up!

Sandra, you're amazing. My new goal is to do about 40 empties a month (which would eventually also mean at least 10 competitive under 5s) to get me to a good payout and have time to work on building the other sites up to equal helium. If I can manage at least 3 a day I know I will make it and more but some days I don't get to do any :-( The passive income is getting up there though so that's encouraging. When you run out of ideas try book reviews.

I agree with Canellita: Sandra, you are amazing. Actually I don't worry too much how many articles I do for Helium (although perhaps I should be a little more focused there), and luckily, their cut-off date for the month is the 25th, so with the end of the month at Helium, I am not too worried. I write for Gather SocialWrite and AC as featured travel editor and local editor for Chicago, and those are what's driving my panic button right now. Sorry to hear about England losing at the World Cup. I thought they could beat Germany. Are they out now??

Hello, Canellita and Art. Thanks for the compliments, but I'm not amazing, just a writer who loves what she does. Actually, focusing on empties and under 5s has got me into realms I never would have dreamed of. I've been doing some fishing titles - I don't fish, but my husband does, so he's good for clarification. Not only am I second in the contest at the moment, I've had a webmaster from a fishing site come back to me and say it's nice to read someone who can be both authratative and entertaining on fishing, and he can't wait to read more. Does you good that, doesn't it? Yes, England have gone now. I'm drowning my sorrows at the moment - although I don't think there's enough vodka in Spain to do that!

While I write for Helium, my real tangible commitments come from Associated Content (where I write 3 travel articles a month as a Featured Travel Writer and 2 as a Featured Local Writer for Chicago) and for Gather SocialWrite, where I have to produce 20 articles a month. All that doesn't sound too bad, but I usually only write one or two articles a day, and it has to include my Helium writing as well. That's the real problem. I write too slowly. Feel glad that you don't have this pressure.