Looking for Revenue and Backlinks?

I know a lot of freelance writers, including myself, are always on the lookout for new and additional methods to increase our revenue screen.

Just as important is finding legitimate venues from which to create valuable backlinks to published material. Legitimate backlinks can increase your material's credibility with search engines. If no one can find what we write, we can never hope to develop an audience or steady income stream.

A peer at HubPages.com introduced me to a site that addresses both of these issues: TipDrop.com. If you're interested in learning more about the site, click here. In addition to allowing each account holder to provide links to 10 articles/sites, this website shares 75 percent of Google Adsense revenue with account holders.

If you choose to look TipDrop over, I hope you'll take a moment to leave a post letting me know what you think.

P Is for Perhaps I Am Getting the Hang of This Blogging Thing

It used to feel like a chore to me to first find something about which to blog and then to sit down and actually do it. But this blogging challenge has shown me that blogging isn't rocket science and it's not brain surgery. I believe I was taking it way too seriously. I also believe that another "P," perfectionism was getting in the way.

Sure, I'd like my blog to take off and be wildly popular, but that's not the reason I began blogging. I have to trust who I am as a person and a writer.

The proof will be in the pudding, as they say. And two more "P" words for today's entry.

At this point in time I can't imagine keeping up with more that one or two blogs at a time, but who knows? For those of you with more than two blogs, how do you manage? I'm sincerely interested.

I Is for Ischemia

You may think I'm reaching with the medical term "ischemia," but follow my train of thought for a moment, if you will. Ischemia in terms of health refers to an area of the body receiving too little blood--the area becomes pale and can die.

The same thing can happen with your writing. If you run out of writing mojo, your writing projects may become pale and lifeless. It's tough because the bills and expenses keep piling up, but taking a day for yourself now and then may be just the thing you need to pump blood and life back into your writing.

You say there's no way you can take a day? Then take an hour or two and do something that re-energizes your batteries. For a whole lot of us, the best thing we can do is get some physical activity. Freelance writing is such a sedentary profession; physical activity is just what the doctor ordered--and maybe your writing muse, too.

At the first signs of writing ischemia, take a time-out.

Endurance--Not Just for Racing

When I think of endurance, the first thing that comes to mind is long-distance running or car racing. Endurance is certainly necessary in those areas, but it is of equal importance to freelance writers. Without the ability to endure--marathon writing sessions, inevitable rejections and the daily grind of finding suitable topics--the freelance writer is going to be hard-pressed to find success.

In writing, as in racing, pacing yourself is an important tactic to endurance and longevity. You may find you write better in short sessions done in intervals during the day; others may be more productive working in one or two long sessions. It doesn't matter which style you choose, as long as it's the style most suited to you and your situation.

You and I both know that there is productivity and there is putting words on paper. The latter of the two hardly shows your best effort. Productivity is when your mind and your fingers are in synch. That may not mean you're writing at 100 miles a minute, but it does mean that what you're writing has meaning.

Writing challenges such as this A to Z Blogging Challenge tests our endurance as writers. I hope to see you at the Z finish line.