Keep Writing for eHow
So any of you have been following this writing blog for any amount of time know that this has been a pretty long gap between blog posts. There have been a few reasons for this. I don't intend for this blog to die - I enjoy writing about my experiences writing for eHow, and I enjoy helping others get a start.But I haven't written nearly as much for eHow in the past month as I wanted to. The reasons are several. For one, I still have major ongoing issues with the personal and family life and that always comes first.
Second, there was the move. Thankfully I'm out of the old slum lord owned apartment with knife fighting neighbors and mutant cockroaches. I'm not kidding - it was a pit that smelled like mold day and night. Not looking forward to how living there for a year is going to affect my quality of life at the end. But we've moved into a much nicer apartment, three bedrooms, and helping my brother move in as he was just recently fired without cause (but his bosses claim to the community he walked away and are challenging his unemployment on that basis), so helping him move in, and then there was the carpal tunnel that struck hard last week.
Yeah. Carpal tunnel, the bane of writers and office workers alike. If you want a decent blog post on carpal tunnel and writers, check that one out. It's also a pretty good freelance writing blog, to boot. It slows down work drastically, not to mention that I have to work less and take care of myself to avoid doing permanent damage.
Which brings us back around to the current point. I was attacking my business plan with the results by volume approach. I know enough to know that if I just kept doing enough work over enough time then eventually I would get to where I wanted to be without having to get lucky or spend a ton of time figuring out perfect keywords or what have you. Not the best strategy, but I had "mini-strategies" in place which helped me to make sure my work was moving me forward.
But I can't work 16 hours a day anymore. Heck, I'm lucky to get in 8 actual work hours before carpal tunnel sets in, and as a writer who is used to being able to pump out volumes of work, this is really hard. So I have to spend most of my limited time on the projects that are most effective to the bottom line and to helping me achieve my goals of full time passive income.
So as much as I like this blog, it's going to see far less posts than it has before, because I don't make money off of this blog. As my wrists hopefully heal, then maybe this is something I can come back to. And there is plenty for me to write, including about the e-book I'm working on, and the strategies I've found that really help the SERP rankings for eHow articles, as well as for other sites you can make money off of.
But for now, I thank everyone for their patience and I'll see ya' later.
