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As well as posting in my blogs five days a week and working on increasing traffic to my blogger one, I’m now heavily into writing for two content sites. You probably already know about Constant Content, where I’ve had five sales this month and six in September. This was reassuring because I had none at all in August, although previous months’ tallies had been quite good.

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Now I’ve also accepted an invitation to join Helium and discovered I could submit article there which had already been sold for non-exclusive rights at CC or posted in my blogs. In fact, they will accept anything for which I hold the copyright. I now have four of those posted there.

I’ve also written two for a current writing contest. The learning curve for this was in understanding how the points are allocated. After being rated second on one title and getting three points, I realised that I would have to enter more articles on different titles in that contest. So far my second one hasn’t netted me any more points but it’s early days yet.

These contests do seem worth entering for the prize money. I’ve yet to decide on a suitable title in the Helium Marketplace though. That is similar to the CC concept of public requests, as publishers make requests of titles and issue a spec to write to. The difference is that they offer a price that is non-negotiable for the work, but the author chosen gets all of that – no commission to Helium.

The downside to all this is that I’m making hardly any submissions of queries or articles in the print arena, which is where the kudos and real money seems to be. I guess I’ll just have to take myself in hand and find the right balance.