144,419 Words Later & Then This Happened

byParthaB

4.2K followers

4 years ago

We are told:

Follow your passion.

Write about something that you love.

Something that interests you.

You’re going to have to write hundreds (if not thousands) of articles on this topic, so choose something that allows you to do this.

Hmm, sounds great in principle.

But, I’m pretty sure I don’t love anything.

I’m almost definitely sure that I’m not passionate about anything.

I know, I’ll choose a topic (or niche if you will) that I have personal experience in, and something that I have researched for my own personal interest.

And that my friends is how my Wealthy Affiliate journey began.

Here I am some 113 days into that first, initial website journey.

Regular content - check (84 articles with 144,419 words)

Regular social interaction - check (Pinterest, Twitter, WA comments, Blog commenting, etc.)

SEO principles followed - check

Regular traffic - check

Sales - check

So, What’s The Problem Partha?

To be honest, the only thing causing a fire in my belly is last night’s Jalfrezi (and not in a good way you understand).

Don’t get me wrong, I am not deserting this site... I mean, GOSH, I can’t.

All that work.

All that effort.

However, I can still request site comments a few times a week, and I can add ONE article a week, no problem. I can update an article here, an article there, add a video, a new image.

You are still in my thoughts my dear, beautiful Original Site.

What About That Other Site You Have Partha?

(You Had To Bring That Up, Didn't You?)

Ah yes, the site about possibly my main interest.

Well, it’s now 3 months old.

It only has a Privacy Policy, an About Me post, and 1 article.

However, to prove EVERYTHING you know WRONG.

That one article is ranked number 9 in Google (although a mere 38 visits in the last month).

Thank you Jaaxy.

Thank you EXTREME low hanging fruit.

But, to be honest, even that site isn’t making me sing and dance.

This needs a little rethink.

What Now?

So, I decided to start a new website (I haven’t forgotten the others, they’re just on the back burner for a bit), and for once, I decided just to write.

Okay, I guess there is a specific niche.

But, in truth, my new website is just getting whatever comes into my head down on (proverbial) paper.

So, I started this weekend.

I have a few articles already written for the new site, but I’m saving those for the future (who knows why?)

I decided to write about something that I discussed recently with someone else (Here at WA).

However, there was a factual answer to the initial question, so this required a little research.

To be honest, I researched the subject for hours and hours, 7 to be precise. And eventually I started to write this article based on the research I had done.

I had completed 946 words by the time I decided to call it a day last night, but I knew precisely what I was going to write today.

However, this was going to be a humdinger of an article, a pillar post if you will. I mean, I’m thinking 4,500+ words, I mean all the bells and whistles, this is going to be the authority post on the subject.

I’m thinking “Featured Snippets” on Google, I’m thinking I’m gonna own Google with this one, in fact if I was partial to an affair, Google is gonna be my side-chick when it comes to this article.

I made sure to check the front page of Google - yeah guys and gals, great information and all that, but I'm pretty sure I can do better.

However, it was time to sleep on it.

Now I will admit I am one for strange dreams every once in a while, but I have to say I never imagined I’d ever dream about Wealthy Affiliate, Jaaxy QSR, KQI or SEO.

Yep. Clearly I’ve hit a new low in my life.

I woke up today and this dream played on my mind.

BUT NO, stick to the plan Partha.

I set about continuing to write my heavily researched article and got about two-thirds of the way through it. We’re talking a healthy 3,000+ words of detailed content.

However, like most dreams, there she was again.

So, I did a quick bit of research on Jaaxy.

My dream had realized a keyword that showed the following statistics (Do not ask me which one - the one with the four most important search results revealed):

Well I never.

So, I decided to write.

No research.

It was a subject I knew well and I enjoyed.

So just write Partha. Don't even think about it, just write

I set a timer for 45 minutes (and before anyone says it, others have often commented on my writing speed, no names mentioned, Neil and Jeff. Yes, men too can type quickly and we can multitask as well).

1,700 words later and I’m nowhere near finished on the article, but it was an absolute pleasure to write.

There wasn’t even a single morsel of research involved.

I just wrote about my own experience and I wrote from the heart.

This is not a subject I would ever consider that I was “passionate” about, but it is something that forms part of my daily life (but then again, so did "ONE article website number 2").

However, writing this article today did really ignite a fire inside me and I enjoyed every single millisecond of those 45 minutes.

In fact, I felt a real sense of loss when that timer went off.

MY QUESTIONS TO YOU

Are you really writing about a subject that you LOVE?

Have you REALLY put ALL thoughts of money to one side and just write from the heart?

Can you really write 1,000+ articles on your niche without EVER getting bored?

I’m not entirely sure if any of the above is truly possible. Sometimes you just have to work through the bad times.

However, for that 45 minutes earlier today, I believe that this is the first time (in many years) that I did absolutely NO RESEARCH and just wrote from the heart.

I’m not going to lie - IT FELT REALLY GOOD.

Thank you for reading

Partha