The Weekly HubNuggets Contest on HubPages looks at the topics of Religion and Philosophy, Health, and Home and Family this week. A total of 18 of the best articles are nominated from among our newer writers and offered for Readers’ edification and Votes. The Top 9 Winners receive help with Internet traffic increases and exposure in the HubPages Weekly Newsletter that goes out to at least 200,000 individuals and organization.
Please have a look at our nominees this week celebrate the life of Steve Jobs with us and enter a vote for your favorites. You do not have to be a member of the site to vote. Thanks!
If we are going to make money writing online, then we need to have a source of topic material that is interesting and that will not dry up.
As readers can see from the range of writing caliber available on the Internet in the 2010s, some writers do not write at all. Posters at some writing or content web sites purchase an article from another site, run it through an article spinner and re-post all these iterations to other sites. Sometimes the spun content is grammatically awkward or makes no sense and this is particularly true when a poster chooses an article in a foreign language and has it spun into other, multiple languages. The result is an unappetizing hash or word salad.
In order to write, writers usually need a writing plan. Old advice that is still good is to write about what one knows best. However, we need to take a look at what we know. Begin with your own resume and experiences and grow a network of topics that will never bore either you or your readers! Add to that some daily reading in a variety of genres and fields, and you cannot go wrong. It all works for me 
Many people today are considering online writing as a means to an income while they look for work. They have been downsized, displaced, left by a spouse or partner that produced the family income, have been hit by medical misfortune, and suffered any of dozens of problems that stopped their income. They are struggling with substantial effort to make a living. Others are new high school and college graduates that enjoy writing and also seek online writing as a source of supplemental income while they look for work.
We have a weekly writers’ recognition program that publishes the articles of writers on our site for three months are less. We nominate 18 of them each week and 9 win extra Internet traffic through a variety of means.
Please visit the round-up of this week’s writers and review the Nominees’ work and please vote. Anyone can vote, no registration required. You’ll be helping someone earn an income! And thanks very much.
A dear woman that wrote for 80 of her almost 98-year lifespan delighted many people with her sports poems (spoems), ad copy, Good Living columns in the Detroit Free Press and the hunorous antics of Koko and Yum Yum cats as they were cared for by Jim Mackintosh Qwilleran - who wrote the Qwill Pen column in Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere.
Lilian Jackson Braun never tried out a typewriter, computer, SmartPhone or iPad, despite living into the 21st Century. She wrote everything with a pencil on legal pads - for 80 years! She began with her sports poems in high school and had the first one published when she was just 17. Her short stories, news columns, and novels are now a permanent part of the American scene.
Lilian was told not to try to write for a newspaper, because hate mail came in for everybody and for a woman – tons of it! She did it anyway – for years – hate mail be damed.
She despised gratuitous violence, profanity, and sex in novels and on-screen and simply would not stoop to using it as filler material - as so many authors do today. Lilian would have none of it and simply stopped writing novels for 18 years – and I’m glad she resumed in the mid-1980s.
My writing contest Round Up of nominees this week is dedicated to the author Lilian Jackson Braun:
Journal of a UFO Investigator is the best coming-of-age book, using the Cold War UFO Phenomenon to look at the lives of Baby Boomers and to tell the story of one teen that studied UFO sightings from 1963 – 1967. while figuring out his life. The author did this himself as well, going on to become a professor of Jewish history, Heavenly Ascent and Biblical languages.
Extraterrestrials and Men In Black keep teen Danny Shapiro busy, while he processes his community’s prejudices and survives the bullies at school. This story could help many of our youth to treasure their differences, stand up to bullying, and release their thoughts of suicide.
This is one of the most innovative sci-fi book of the year. For a full review, see:
Moby Dick, the Great White Whale and Captain Ahab’s obsession with his obliteration is complex, heavy with symbolism nd l-o-n-g. Themes include politics, racism, and religion as well as class disparity. The remake with Patrick Stewart as Ahab is excellent and reminds me of Ahab’s last words spit from the mouth of Kahn Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) in Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. This led to The Voyage Home and a pair of endangered whales that saved the world in 1986 and the 23rd Century. For videos of the great comedy moments of the film, back story, and bloopers, see:
>>Today, Star Trek’s William Shatner helps new actors, writers, artists, singers, musicians, directors and others to achieve their dreams at http://www.myouterspace.com/.
As you may recall from our last Nuggetscapes Adventure, the Judge Bee Court of Last Resort recessed in order to attend a novel Shakespearean play. If you missed it, come to the link below and have a read-through with the cast.
The participants decided on yet another classic and each took a vital part. Judge Bee herself took over Ye Olde Costume and Wardrobe Department, much like hre friend on NCIS: Los Angeles, Hettie Lange (whose actress performed Shakespeare as well!). One just does not know where one might scrape up evidence for the Candestine Services.
At any rate, here is our new theatrical production to celebrate new writers and to give the old ones a chuckle:
First Person Experiences with Learning Disorders in the ADHD Spectrum: Part-Time Genius, Full-Time Job - This is a book detailing the daily lives of a boy and his mother, through family, divorce, a string of schools, dozens of therapists, and some techniques that actually worked. With an uplifting ending that shows progress is possible, this first-person account can help any parent that has just learned of an ADD or ADHD diagnosis in his or her child.
Top 10 Jobs for Roslyn Estates, NY - Dedicated to Education and Sustainability. This community may hold pricey homes, but it’s wealth points to the 200,000+ jobs only half an hour away. The highest demand jobs in the locale begin at $40,000 annually.
Make Money on HubPages via Affiliate Marketing and Other Income Streams - Many of us make a living writing for HubPages. There’s no magic – just consistent input of well written content, participation in community projects, and some ongoing promotion. People are making a good income after only 1 year on the site. Why not try it while you look for work?
TALK TO THE ANIMALS: African Grey Parrots – English Language and Interspecies Communications. Your bird pet may or may not be able to hold a conversation with you as do the birds in this long-term study; however, the material shows that being alone in a cage all day is not healthy. There are things you can do – like have a small “entertainment center” for your parrot friend.
The proof that these birds can reason and use English is inherent in one remarkable incident. Many times over the course of 30+ years, Alex decided not to answer questions or asked to go back to his cage instead. One day was different. Alex was answering questions about objects in front of him and the answers required more than simple memorization of words spewed out at random. When he reached the last question, he gave every answer possible, except the correct answer.
Dr. Pepperberg gave him a time out in his cage and left him all alone. In about 30 minutes, the doctor returned and released the now seemingly contrite bird, who instantly piped up “Sorry!” followed by the correct answer to the last question asked some little time ago. The length of memory of that question beats some human performance on memory portions of IQ tests, such as the Wechsler edition administered to adults. That bird was playing a joke during testing or had been fed up with answering and become a wiseguy. How human, we’d say.
Irene Pepperberg, a Bird’s Best Friend – How Birds Can Understand English And Reason.
By participating in HubPages contests and challenges, I have increased Hub views,made new friends, stimulated an ongoing interest in writing, and increased earnings.
Each of the two times I participated in the 60 Day Challenges for writing 1 month and and promoting with the group 1 month, my earnings increased 30% – each time!.
Participation in other group projects and using promotion techniques learned here, along with affiliates and ads, I was able to maintain steady earnings. This was despite some decreases in page views in the midst of the Google “content-farm” crackdown.
In fact, earnings increased in January and February 2011, to a rate of over 50% in February, and increasing in March.
You can accomplish the same goals –
I Can Make a Living with HubPages — How to Drive Traffic to Your Site With HubPages Participation.
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