Yes, I wrote my reply to Marion, before I checked out her great work, but now I am a Marion fan, and have subscribed to her Blog. She had a really great post on Libraries there. I am thinking of adopting her “Library Day” concept. It makes total sense. Anyway, got to get back to work.

Talk to you later, and Marion, thanks for your Blog, its really well done, I will read all of it, but it looks like you have quite a bit there to go thru. So, it might take a day or two.

-Lance

Lance, you could be gentle with Marion, who didn’t understand your spirit.

You have asked a really nice question due to your loving and caring manner, not out of spite or anger “Winning’s all that matters, isn’t it?”

In competition, yes winning is the most important component, you are absolutely correct and in the case of working towards your PB “personal best” then you are competing against “yourself” and thus, achievement is the victory, “winning” and yes, that is what matters.

Your acceptance of my right to view things in the way I choose is irrelevant, such statements are a use of trickery that psychologists use, in this case they do not build bridges, rather tear them down, your condemnation of actual observations is indeed, unworthy of consideration either. If folks who signed up did not complete their personal commitment, they are lazy and weak, as are many in the population – it is a disease.

My dear Marion, I feel GREAT! Everyday, in everyway and you have stated: “And I bet you couldn’t achieve what I do in the course of a day!”

Oh please, and how much are you willing to wager – and how are you going to pay that today?

Now then, I did indicate that it is great for folks to push themselves to greater heights, and I do believe that overcoming the invisible barriers that people set is wonderful. As far as being inspirational, I’ve certainly done more in that category during my life than anyone else I have ever met. Diplomacy is a great skill to have and employ as necessary, although BS is also not much fun to walk thru, so when it is all dried up – I just as soon toss it back.

Thank you so much for bringing up these needed comments and caring so much about how things should be done in this world to insure we all live a beautiful life with deeper understanding and sharing, wrapped in a spectacular bow of political correctness. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones on this heart felt and meaningful season. May your 2008 bring you all the joy, love and laughter you deserve for being such an awesome individual. May your energy and spirit guide you to a grade place of emotional and uplifting nature. Thank you Marion for all you do, for your writing and your loving ways.

How’s that – Happy now?

I hope your articles are better researched than the comments you’ve been leaving here.

This wasn’t a competition to see who could write the most articles in 30 days. Clearly, you would have won that. Winning’s all that matters, isn’t it?

I accept your right to the view that this wasn’t what you would call a challenge. Why then are you so mad no-one invited you? And if it wasn’t a challenge, why did so many of the original sign-ups not complete it?

I don’t know how you feel when you complete your 36 articles in one day but I imagine you don’t feel as good as I did after completing 16 in a month.

And I bet you couldn’t achieve what I do in the course of a day!

I don’t know any of the individuals who organised the challenge but they showed me and the other writers respect for each achievement, no matter how small, and encouraged us to write and submit more than we’d have done on our own.

I’m curious as to why you feel you have to write so many articles. Is it all about quantity? You’d be more inspirational if you demonstrated a bit of diplomacy, not to mention support for others less capable than your good self.

Thanks for the info! I actually was wondering what the stats for THIS blog (EzineArticles.com) are. More and more it’s a writer’s congregation as far as I can see. I know we also have other folks from different areas of business in the mix… but like I said, I’m curious about the actual stats. Like if someone happened to take a survey of who reads this blog and why, I’d definitely take a gander. :)

Sounds like you all had a good time in your writing endeavors. Getting a small group primed for productivity is definitely the way to go.

Dina

Lance, I’m sorry you felt excluded from the Challenge. It’s open to anyone who wants to sign up (which, of course, is free), though it’s more geared for folks who are just getting started with the idea of article marketing, not experienced people like yourself. We do have many more experienced participants, though, and they set personal goals and offer resources and assistance to the newbies. It’s all in good fun and we enjoy doing it. :]

There is more information about the Challenge at http://www.lkarticlechallenge.com, and Suzanne and I promote it on our blogs and through other channels. There is a new Challenge starting in January, and you are more than welcome to join us! If participating in the Challenge itself isn’t really up your alley, you are also welcome to submit guest articles for the Challenge blog to share your article marketing advice and experiences.

And please let us know when your Article Marketing book/ebook is available so we can check it out and spread the word. You can contact me privately through the Challenge website.

Cheers,
Kristen King
Co-Host, LK Article Challenge

No… Now that I remember how it exactly happened, I wanted to read Chris’ new article and then I saw that there were comments in the last article and I clicked to see them. Then I read your comment and I forgot Chris’ new article…

But later I came back to it.

I have to leave my comments in this blog everyday. Otherwise, my webmaster delays and I have many problems in my virtual life…
Everything is strictly connected.

Additionally, for a person who writes in your field all the time, you should be able to do this. 38 articles in a month is absolutely respectable, if you are busy doing other things. 15-articles is not worthy of accolades for an article writing contest, although for a brand new writer it is an excellent accomplishment.

The number of hits to your articles is really more a factor of a “Catchy, Trendy or Key Word Considered Title” and I believe it has very little if anything to do with the quality of that article. This is not to say that the article should not be excellent, just discussing the reality. But since I disagree with you, but also enjoyed completely going thru your statistics here on ALL your articles the other day, I believe you need some competition to help you write the best articles and as rapidily as possible, so this will be your new on-going challenge.

Real competition is good for you, it really is. Excuses, too busy, cannot handle it and all those other things, even this concept of writer’s block other authors, not you, buy into is hog wash. “Real Competition” makes people better, really. Everyone in that challenge needs real competition. I went thru all the authors here posted above in that challenge to see which titles, types of articles had the most traffic, based on their respective posting dates, considering the seasonality. I learned a lot about things.

Additionally, it is obvious to me that I need to write a book on Article Writing and make it available to all, on all I have learned. Competition in online eBook marketing also makes people better, and well, I expect better, that’s my challenge to those who challenge themselves.

Oh and Christina, you post on nearly every single topic on this board so, it was not by accident, you cannot hide your emotion even though you are a psychologist writer. Let’s all dump the BS, PR Fluff and game playing and compete in the real world, that is how competition makes people better. This challenge was not too challenging, in my humble opinion. I don’t read much into it other than the promoters wishing to add lots of article postings to their website and make a few people feel ALL warm and fuzzy. I really do not see the challenge in that.

I just read your comment by chance…
If we had time to stay so many hours writing like you, we would write much more!

I wrote 38 articles for this challenge and while I was reviewing a report I wrote for APA, while I was finishing writing also another ebook and while I was dealing with several other matters in my offline life.

Besides, my articles are not easy: I write about serious matters. I have to be responsible for the directions I give and explain everything properly.
Articles about mental, psychic and emotional health, depression and other problems cannot be written quickly!
And we have to read them many times so that we’ll be sure that the guidance we are giving is comprehensible and really helpful.

If I would write articles about technology, writing or another similar subject, I would certainly be able to write many articles per day like you!

I’m thinking about writing 5 articles per day in the future, but perhaps it’s not going to be possible because my articles’ quality is more important than anything else. I prefer to write a perfect article (that will be in Google’s first page/paragraph) in 3 hours than to write 10 weaker articles in the same period of time.