Cure for Sporadic Posting

As anyone who has followed my blogs for any time knows, I am a sporadic blogger. This has bothered me. I want to be able to post more. I like to write. I like the social aspects of blogging. There are a lot of things I like about it, but my other life does not allow me to post much during the school year. There are options, though.

I sometimes manage to post for periods just fine. I have created posts that would post at a future date, allowing me to go a while without posting. Other times, I just can't seem to get much out. I suppose that I could post more short meaningless posts, but I don't like to do that much. I've considered closing my blogs, but that just won't do either. I have decided to just like with the fact that they are never going to have very regular postings.

Are their alternatives out there for those of us who love to write, but don't have the time for a regular blog?

Yes. If you find yourself, like me, wanting to write, but not having the time to make frequent blog posts here are some options:

1. Go with it. Yes, the search engines will smile more if you post more. Other will visit more, if you have frequent updates. There are many reasons for frequent updates, but if your purpose in writing is just to write, forget about those and just write. Who cares how sporadic it is.

2. Write for others. There are many other sites out there that you can write for. They already have a regular readership who will get to see your writings. Some examples are:

eHow: In the last year I've written 10 articles here and make between $1 and $3 a month off of them. Every time it reaches $10, I get a check at the end of the month. Not much, but dollar for article, I make more there than I do here.

Demand Studios: Demand Studios owns eHow and other sites. Here you can browse through hundreds of titles. You choose a title and write about it. You get paid between $5 and $20 per article. It is not much, but with the 33 titles I've written, I've made $305.

Squidoo: I've not really gotten into Squidoo, but some people love it. It is kinda cool. You make a single page and promote it. You get paid based on visitors and clicks and other stuff. I think it is the "promote it" part that turns me off. On Demand Studios, there is no promoting to do. With eHow, I can promote, but people find me, even though I don't. I've only written one article on Squidoo and it has made a huge $.03, which I gave to charity.

3. Hire writers. You can hire writers to write for your sites and then, when you have time, you add in your own comments.

oDesk and Text Broker are two options. With each one, you get to look at the copy and ask for revisions. Textbroker has a price set for the quality of the writer. The higher quality a writer, the more that you pay. oDesk, you negotiate directly with the writer. These are also both options for writers to make money on, but textbroker pays very little until you get to level 5 (hard to do) and oDesk requires the writer to install some spyware that I don't wanna use (they can watch you work through your web cam).