A Light at the End of the Tunnel
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I wandered over to Helium today and discovered – to my pleasant surprise – that my writing score has jumped from 80% to 90%. Looks like all my lamenting about being a talentless writer might have been a tad premature after all…
What happened? Well, sometime back I rewrote my article on “Sleep Apnoea” for resubmission. It was quickly rejected but I hadn’t realised that the time that the reason for rejection was because of poor formatting. I hadn’t previewed the article to see how it would appear once it was published.
That’s the problem when you cut and paste your articles. For some strange reason, there is always some strange “unseen” codes added to the article that don’t appear when you initially paste the article into the writing box but they show up after you’ve published the article.
Anyway, after correcting the formatting and resubmitting the article again, it shot up to the top of the list and is currently in pole position *pats self on the back*. That change is also likely the cause for bumping up my writing score.
It still isn’t a star for creative writing, but it is a step in the right direction. I guess it is a little too soon to trade in my keyboard and give up professional writing altogether…
On the flip side, however, my score on Hubpages is dropping again. I think there is something to be said about publishing articles on a regular basis. When I am consistently active on Hubpages, my score remains above 80 and has even broken the barrier into the 90s – given that I am writing useful articles, that is.
Looks like we’re back to square – there is no substitute for writing if you want to get better at it.
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