Writing for Internet Success
By MJ Schrader. Filed in Success |Tags: Success, writing
Unfortunately it seems I fell victim to a classic blunder. Of course the most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia. In this case the classic blunder was wanting to get more writing done by using my competitive nature so I joined EzineArticles HAHD Double. 200 articles plus 50 bonus in 100 days.
PROBLEM 1 I had not actually started a daily writing routine, so my goal of writing at least 25 articles a week for 100 in the first month resulted in 60 articles. 250-60=190
PROBLEM 2 One month into HAHD my grandmother had a stroke. For 2 weeks we had to plan for the unexpected, a sudden leaving. Then we had 10 days of taking care of things for the family. So in the 30 days of June, I wrote maybe 15 articles. 190-15=175
PROBLEM 3 This left just over 40 days to write 175 articles ACK. This resulted in basically what happens when your car is in mud and you decide to use speed to get out… I bogged down. 
Now the count down is coming to the line… can I do it? Who knows.
But this is supposed to be writing for internet success. I learned lessons.
Solution 1: Make plans to write every day, or a regular once a week session. Set it up at a regular time. If you can not write a post for your work blog, create another blog to share ramblings and thoughts but do what you can to write regularly.
Solution 2: Plan ahead. Do more at the beginning when you have time when things are ok. When things go south, you are ok.
Solution 3. FOCUS ON THE NEXT STEP. See the mountain in the distance, but focus on your next step not the path up ahead, not the hills, rocks and other things in the middle. Focus one post, one article at a time. And then look up to check the mountain top and realize you are there.
What solutions do you have? Add some good ones in the comments and I may add them to another post with a link to your site.
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MJ Schrader
