I feel like I'm failing
- lynnechandlerposted 13 years ago
0 Yep, it is more a sign of the times.. I guess we joined around the same time and as our hubs started producing we got the Google quake and faltered..I guess it is the same else where. Cheer up, hopefully things will improve
I don't think you ought to think of it as failing. People (we writers) have had the rug pulled out from under from under us (or else, in some cases, maybe just had some other rug dumped in top of of whatever other rug and anything else was there). People are all figuring out what the next steps/approach they have to think about are. I haven't felt like writing anything (not just on here - at all) for quite awhile now. (Between being exhausted from doing Easter dinner (etc.) and kind of exhausted with all the spare-time writing "issues" that have been going on, I just took yesterday to do nothing but fool around (including on here) a good part of the day.
There's only so much energy those of us who do this as a "side thing" can spend, and recent events have been exhausting for people in different ways, depending on the who it is and the kind of stuff they write.
I guess my point is you're far from alone (and maybe you do have a little bit of burnout going on). It's not failing, though. It's being suddenly faced with the challenge of finding new ways to approach things. There are only so many pain-in-the-neck things that can happen before people run out of steam for a little while. Maybe you should take a few days away. The whole mess (with the new challenges) will all still be here when you get back. In the meantime, maybe some ideas will come to you (in which case, return early from your break).Totally relate to where you are at. I too have a full time day job but hoped one day to switch to writing on line. Many of us here currently feel discouraged, frustrated and not sure what our post-Panda strategy should be. You are not a failure and not alone. Just hang in here with the rest of us. I'm hopeful things will be become clearer in the next month or two!
My opinion.
You are not failing.
It can’t be done anymore.
We are too late.
However; I, myself, shall continue for no apparent reason that I can figure.You aren't falling.. you just feel faint because you are losing blood due to the fact that you were bitten by a vicious Google Panda
Wow, now I don't feel so bad. Well, I still feel frustrated but it helps to know it's not just me
Misery loves company LMAO. But really, it helps to have the support of knowing someone else is having the same issues -- so I know I'm not just failing.
I really appreciate the helpful comments and cheerful thoughts....especially the panda image. Thanks fellow hubbers, now I know I'm in a bigger boat with everyone else.- lynnechandlerposted 12 years ago0
Christen-- I remember you VERY well from eHow since way back.
You've always had very creative and informative content.
I, too, feel like i've been failing sometimes. But then i try to remember that ive only had this HP account for about 4 months. Most people who are making money have been here for at least a year, and have a good quantity of hubs (mixed with quality, of course).
The best thing we can both do is keep on writing--even if it's only 3 hubs per week-- and remain patient
Good luckThe only failure is in not trying.
I write because "I believe". I believe it'll all turn out OK in the long run, but if I don't write today then in the long run there'd be 0 hubs.
Have you tried re-writing all your eHow stuff and dumping it into hubs, just to get your count up and to feel you're achieving something? You worked hard to pull your eHow stuff together, so why not just re-write it, freshen it up, for hubs - it's quicker than starting from scratch and inventing entirely new content for here.
I first joined some years ago - wrote a few pffft hubs and left it. After about a year I spotted an income from hubs - and I got excited - and wrote a bunch more
I find now that I can probably manage two intensive sessions per year here.... and it's still lovely to see my old original hubs are still generating a trickle of interest.
If you don't write, you don't get... it's a long-term game.
Good luck!
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