Milestones and frustration!

I have written my first fifty articles on eHow. That's a big milestone, especially in only two weeks! I didn't write anything yesterday, though. The night before, my poor baby boy was up sick the entire night and there was no way I could put together a cohesive thought! I'll be back at it today, though.

So far, it's frustrating. I know that everyone says it's frustrating the first few months and I know that I'm no different than anyone else but it's still frustrating. One day I get over one thousand views, the next day only two hundred. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason so far. One day I made over a dollar. Some days I don't make any money at all. I can't quite figure it out. But then, that's what everyone says when they start writing for eHow. And they also say that after a few months, it gets much better.

I have been learning so much from eHow. There is a whole world out there of getting paid to write. It's truly fascinating and overwhelming. I want to dive in all at once but at the same time I am terrified to try at all. I figure that I really have nothing to lose, though. Rejection over the internet doesn't sting nearly as much as rejection in person, afterall! I do have the technical training, what I lack is real-life experience. Although that is what I am learning about eHow - it is real life experience. It's a way to get paid to write and to get my writing out there so people can see it. I have actually put in five bids for small writing projects on rentacoder.com and I'm anxiously awaiting the results of those bids. Most of them aren't much money but at least one of them sounds like a lot of fun. The more reading I do, the more I find that landing the first job is the hardest part. I keep hearing that I should bid, bid, bid. But all of the projects that I have looked at so far would be due at the same time, and that wouldn't be good at all!

There are so many other options, so many sites that pay for writing work. I can't wait to test some of them out!