My Writing Plan for Summer 2009

The Importance of Developing a Writing Plan for Freelancers

I've been working as a content provider for two years, and June 2009 was an especially good month for me as an online writer. When I first started writing for web sites in the summer of 2007, I was excited to earn just a few pennies, and as my writing career progressed, I started making double digit checks. Last month, I was overjoyed to take a couple of three figure checks to the bank that represented dollars earned providing content for a number of web sites.

As my writing career progresses I am now faced with the following question on a daily basis: what is the most effective use of my writing time today? And if I focus too much attention providing content for one web site, am I losing opportunities for revenues on other writing sites? I find that as I write for more web sites, there's the temptation to spread myself too thin. Lately, I've been pondering if it isn't better to make an all out effort to write and earn money at a few key web sites, than it is to have a few articles placed here and there on a lot of different writing sites.

With this in mind, I've decided to focus my writing efforts on a few key areas. Here is my writing plan for summer 2009, and how I hope to significantly increase my revenues as a web writer this season.

My Summer 2009 Writing Plan

As I mentioned earlier, there's always the temptation to spread yourself too thin as a content provider. Once you get a Google AdSense number, you'll read about many places you can sign up and write for a share of AdSense revenues. Some writers are on so many revenue sharing sites I wonder how they find the time to keep up with them all! I suspect that many will sign up and add their AdSense number to a lot of sites they hear about, maybe adding a few pieces of content to one site, then moving on to another if their revenues are low, or they're bored writing for a particular site.