In case you’re new here, I need to clarify that I am extremely obsessed with tracking my statistics. I probably spend as much time analyzing numbers as I do writing. Maybe even more. I actually had to put myself on a stat-checking diet.
Why a Stat-Checking Diet?
I was checking my adsense income hourly, checking [...]

Since such a lot of my website’s traffic seems to be for the term “writers weekly” I felt that it was important for me to distance myself professionally from Angela Hoy.
She has a vendetta against webwriters.
She repeatedly publishes articles calling all internet writing sites “content mills” and declaring, one after another, that they’re [...]

The other day, I came home tired after spending a fantastic day out in the REAL WORLD with my kids. We enjoyed hot cocoa from the espresso stand (OK- the kids had cocoa, I had a six-shot hazelnut latte, but I digress) We went to the humane society and walked dogs, we drove through [...]

There are new websites offering opportunities for writers every day. It starts like a wave. One website is formed on the message boards of another website. Discontented or financially inspired contributors (or designers or editors) from one website decide to jump in and create their own. It’s happening a lot right now. [...]

I’m trying to come to peace with the term “content mill.” It always sounds so negative. Mainly, I don’t care. The people who insult Demand Studios writers often don’t tell the whole story. They talk about the “pathetic pay” which, in my experience, is $40-$80 an hour. What’s so pathetic about that, considering I [...]