A is for April Article Successes - IWSG

So, I'm a day late and a dollar short with my Insecure Writers Support Group (IWSG) blog post that's a 1st Wednesday of the month thing. Blog posts took a back seat last month while I cranked up my Yahoo! Contributor article submissions. Have had a few unexpected successes, so I feel much better now!

Not that I've mastered article writing yet or anything, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. There's several things that I struggle with when writing articles:

• I'm a slow writer: 2 - 4 hours to complete an article, sometimes longer
• Boring Beat Topic: for Yahoo! Finance beat, upfront pay is better, but not fun to write  
• AP vs. Chicago Manual style: Switching between article types, News vs. Voices vs. Finance gets confusing

Article Page View Successes:

• A First: political news commentary received 6.5K page views in 24 hrs. YAY! (7.7K total)
• 2nd Place: An older article from March received almost 1K page views in April (2.3K total)
• 3rd Place: Another older article from March got 340 page views (4.4K total)

Accomplishments:

• Earned the Top 500 badge (again) for April
• Got  my Pinterest page going

So April was a pretty great month! There were some fails too, I'll blog about those tomorrow...