Writing more and enjoying it less? Did you know you can get paid to write?

Are you writing more and enjoying it less? I hope not. I have been discovering, day by day, that writing online is a freeing experience. It frees me to think out loud and share my thoughts with literally thousands of interested readers, like yourselves.

I have only occasionally written my own blogs for sta.rtup.biz. However, I find myself regularly responding excitedly to other people's blogs, especially because of the promise of winning money, $1,000. I have not yet won that prize, but I keep trying. In the process, I continue to make new friends. People love to read the comments of all those people who have read their words, who understand what they are thinking and feeling, and who either agree, disagree, or offer some additional insights.

In my writing practices, I have also written 88 articles to date for http://www.ezinearticles.com. What has been so exciting about writing these articles is that I am gradually building a reputation for myself as an expert in my niche: healing, love and relationships. I see the statistics daily of how many people have actually read each specific article, how many have clicked on my URL, how many articles received 5 stars, and some additional factors. It was exciting when the number of viewers exceeded 100, and then when it went over 1000, and then over 10,000. At this point, to me this is mind-bogglling, there are over 13,000 people who have read my articles.

Recently I realized that as a Diamond Member at sta.tup.biz, my blogs (one per month) can be read by over 40,000 readers who are members. The numbers are becoming astounding! The only thing left to do is to offer something of value and sit back and enjoy the responses.

In February, only a few months ago, I was invited to write for another site, http://www.examiner.com.
This is an article site with national and local specialists, called examiners, writing about their selected niche topics. I am officially the Miami Relationships Examiner, writing basically for online readers located in South Florida. This niche is good for my purpose of promoting my private counselng practice and my local seminars. There are also national examiners who write for a broader base of readers.

What is unique and special about examiner.com is that they have a payment schedule. You are no longer just writing blogs and articles for free. You have the capacity to get paid. Now, the fee schedule is quite low, but it is based upon the number of clicks onto the site of people reading your specific articles. My readership has been slowly building since I began in February, but then I wrote one article, just one article that hit a bullseye. Within just two days, the number of people who clicked on the site and read my articles was over 6,000. And, the potential is limitless.

If you would like to become an examiner yourself, writing about your own niche, go to http://www.examiner.com and please use Referral Code #3145.
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Comment by amyeandrews on June 17, 2009 at 12:34pm: I love to write, and have found keeping a "Notes" blog on Facebook to be very liberating in getting all those things that intrigue me, bug me or just simply interest me. However, I find when I'm writing for a more 'formal' audience, I agonize so much about every little word that I get frustrated and don't think myself 'worthy' of publishing. I really need to get over this because only with practice comes perfection. I'm off to write....

Comment by Diana Warmbrodt on June 17, 2009 at 12:33pm: I like to write but generally don't find the time and sometimes I get writer's block. I have a blog and went to post to it the other day and realized that it had been six months since I posted anything there. For me it really takes discipline. I like the end results more then that actual doing of it. By that I mean I'm simply not that crazy about typing.

Comment by Donna on June 17, 2009 at 12:32pm: I love writing for my blog and ezine as well. There are quite a few places online to write for and I am always tickled when I receive positive feedback for something I've written.
My business is so much a part of me it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. I began Earth Mother Selfheal over 15 years ago as a spiritual healer. With the internet came classes and products to sale.
Writing gives me the opportunity to share my spiritual growth with others as they are inspired to be open to sharing with me.
It's a win win for us all.

By the way.. the fan just died on my computer .. mercy.. now I get to learn how to repair it. I blew out the dust to no avail. Guess I can take that piece to the parts store and get another. This too, will turn into blogging material.... it all does..

Smiles,
Donna
PS I really enjoy Twitter to write inspiring and motivating thoughts throughout the day. Lots of those thoughts turn into blogs and articles as well.

Comment by Kirk Lockhart on June 17, 2009 at 12:16pm: I only Blog because I like to communicate.
If it ever becomes a chore I would stop. When you do something you Love it always pays off!

Comment by Stanislav-Stan: KrTil on June 17, 2009 at 12:16pm: Dear Dr. Goodstone,

Thank you very much for the info. Would you find a time to call me as I have a few questions I want to ask, concerning writing. Thank you.

Respectfully yours

Stanislav-Stan: KrTil
Phone: (250) 770-8781
www.Homo-Sapiens-Conscius.com

Comment by Sheena Hart on June 17, 2009 at 12:15pm: Enjoyed your blog. Friendly and informative for people who just want to chat to like minded people, plus good advice for those who might be skilled enough to earn some cash.

Comment by Oussama Salah on June 17, 2009 at 12:14pm: Yes, I started writing on blogs recently and you are right it is very exciting, eventually I will have my own and become rich and famous, oh well maybe only famous

Comment by Michael Gladkoff on June 17, 2009 at 12:10pm: I'm a professional freelance writer and editor who enjoys my work. Although, you can get 'burned out' if you do too much writing. Good writing requires a lot of thinking and can be exhausting. So five or six hours a day of writing is probably the upper limit before you need to stop for the day.

You can get free information about copywriting, business writing, speech writing, editing and proofreading at my writing blog. Go to www.wordnerds.com.au .

Comment by Angel1 on June 17, 2009 at 12:09pm: You are brilliant to use a contest blog to write about and recruit examiners, because you know it will be read by so many. I wish that I had thought of it myself. I am the Southern Colorado Literature Examiner. I am going to have to look up your examiner site, to find out what you wrote about that created such a stir. My niche is quite a bit different and I'm not attracting outrageous numbers of readers, but I think I am covering my topic fairly well (anything of interest to southern Coloradoans pertain to literture). It would be great if I could find one article like you did. I will be checking out your site, and I invite you to check out mine. (Maybe you could offer some pointers?) Angel1

Comment by Christopher Warden on June 17, 2009 at 12:03pm: What I love about writing is the idea of helping people -- creating a message that can be shared with many people at once vs. the limitation of helping one person at a time in private coaching.

Unfortunately (now) writing is somewhat painful for me . . . likely because I stress about getting things written 'perfectly' vs. just focusing getting my thoughts out. It's something that I hope improves with more frequent practice.

Thank you for your article!

Christopher

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