I Learned to Consistently Write for Peanuts

This was around 7 years ago when I was doing part-time ghost writing articles for another ghost writer/freelance writer. I didn't have the time to build a profile and get regular clients so I rode on their reputation and wrote for them while they do quality check.

In my mind, I just needed to kill time while being productive on top of studying medicine (as if the study of medicine wasn't already stressful as it is pre-AI era). Anyway, they too a cut per article and we had a 70/30 arrangement with me getting most of the share. It wasn't big money for small projects but the rewards not going to me accumulated.

I know the work I did in the past was worth more than what my manager was getting paid for but I didn't mind it at that time. I just wanted a side gig experience.

There I was researching to do "quality articles" based off using appropriate SEO keywords writing at least 5, 500 word articles talking about the same thing in different angles. I did this daily for several months even when I didn't felt like it or had no strong motivation for money.

But it paid off in ways where I just earned something on the sidelines because it became a system. There were several days I felt uninspired to write but I forced myself to and consistency pays. That's how I'm able to shitpost in less than 15 minutes or an hour some 500 word article because the task reward fast researchers and writers.

The pay still sucked but the skill of doing the daily grind years back is still with me. That's how I can still do daily outputs scheduled because I allot a single day to write a few posts in advance. Ideally, I write in days where I'm motivated to get things faster done but even in days where I drag my feet still works because a system exist and it's not dependent on motivation.

I capitalize on habit building to keep this systems running and the evidence is consistency. A life hack I did for blogging is tying it to whatever daily activities or thoughts that spur in the moment. I just write the phrase / thought in a noted pad on my phone and explore the idea later to post about.

This is attracting inspiration come to you from your ordinary activities. The exercise is having the skill to write consistently about anything. Once you have this base skill, you can figure out what topics you can write that are interesting built on top of the first.

Thanks for your time.

Update: Hive account@adamada, I paid out 0.554 HIVE and 0.000 HBD to reward 2 comments in this discussion thread.

ghost writing articles for another ghost writer/freelance writer.

I never know what to think about ghostwriting.

There were several days I felt uninspired to write but I forced myself to and consistency pays

I was an undisciplined mess of a uni student but this was still a thing that had to happen when I was doing biology if you wanted to have any prayer of getting your assignments and lab reports and stuff done on time to some kind of acceptable standard. I imagine it would be similar or wors with medicine so that habit definitely would have helped XD

I don't have a strong opinion about ghost writing. I'd say it works similar to how famous painters and mangaka don't really do 100% of their top or usual works without an apprentice doing the repetitive task.

They'll sign the finished work after a review that it was rendered in their own style done by the apprentice. The public doesn't know the apprentice did the actual work (most or part of it) but to the public's eyes, it was 100% the artist with the name. As long as people get compensated and knew what they were getting into prior to doing the ghost work, I think we can strike a balance.

It's a tricky subject since I know pitchforks will come if I had a ghostwriter shitposting for me and proven true here.

It sounds like you learned a great life skill and are continuing the trend, posting for peanuts on Hive now. I hope you don't still have the 70/30 share at least! !LOLZ

I quit that work years ago after it became more trouble that it was worth. The experience was the chase and I got over it and moved on. Now I do the same without an employer for shitposting except I make believe I still have that slave driver taxing my works just to grind some more.