The trend with freelance writers is to write for multiple websites in order to provide a decent stream of income. We write for Associated Content, eHow, Suite101, and other places in hopes that the combined effort will make a steady, sizeable income. How can you best manage the time spent writing for multiple websites? Hopefully, this article will provide some tips to help you out.
- Develop a schedule and stick with it. It is so easy to get frazzled and weary when you think you’ve got to write an article for each website every day. Try giving yourself a schedule where you concentrate on one site a day. If you are only writing for two sites, write for one site three times a week, and the other twice a week. Do try very hard to take the weekends (or at least two other days) off a week, so you don’t become burned out.
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Step 2
While freelance writing provides many freedoms that a traditional office setting can’t, don’t take advantage of that fact. It takes discipline to write articles to pay the bills. Yes, you can run errands when the malls aren’t so busy on weekday mornings, but if you tell yourself you are going to work four or five hours a day, do it! Otherwise, you will feel like you have fallen behind the wheel, and you won’t have anyone else to blame but yourself.
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Step 3
Keep a theme each week for each website that you write for. For example, write about pet care for all of the websites that you write for, and you can keep a flow going from being in the same frame of mind. Then, switch to a different topic the next week and so on.
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Step 4
Write quality articles with content that readers are actually interested in reading. This involves researching and knowing your facts before you begin writing an article. If you are flying through articles just to get them posted, you will not get many hits. Thus, you will think that you have to join more websites to write for in order to make money, when in actuality you may just need to revisit how well you are writing, and make good money from the sites that you are already at. In other words, you may just need to write for one or two websites providing good quality content, instead of writing for four websites and rushing to get articles up so you can get paid.