Writing for Constant-Content - my goals, making money, etc

If you read my previous post about making money writing, you will notice that I mention Constant-Content. I do so for a reason - it's a great site that allows its writers control over what and how often they write, as well as how much they want to get paid for it. The only problem is, you will only get paid when you actually sell an article. Which is, of course, the downside.

Now, I've read elsewhere that in order to make money writing at Constant-Content, you'll need to write at least five articles a day, if not ten. Five articles. Sounds great, right? That is, until you sit down to write them! I mean, what the hell am I going to write about?

Well, same thing as I do with my blogs and everything else in my ENTP life: I research the crap out of something until it bores me, and then write about it. Surely I can easily come up with articles for gardening? Or cooking? Or going vegan? Or raising kids, Montessori, gluten-free, kettlebells, Celiac disease, Young-onset Parkinson's Disease, the flu shot, or any number of technical topics that I encounter in my job.

If you really really brainstorm, you can come up with ideas. The harder part is writing coherently and in a way that will make people want to buy what you have to sell.

So, here's my goal for Constant-Content for 2013. Will you follow me in my journey?

Goal #1: Write and submit 150 articles a month (or more).
 One hundred and fifty articles per month equates to about five a day. Double that and you're looking at 300 a month...which is a hell of a lot of articles! I find that my days go in spurts- some days I write more than others. So focusing on the monthly goal rather than the daily goal is a better bet for me.

The post I cited above stated that many authors get sales when they write a lot about one topic. For example, a buyer coming in and swooping up every article on the flu or something. If you have a lot of articles across a wide variety of topics, you will eventually sell quite a bit.

Now the other trick is to actually price these articles well. I mean, you won't make a lot of money at $10 an article or $50 an article. But $30? Now you're getting somewhere, especially if your article is well-written and meets a need.

Goal #2: Make $500 a month from CC alone.
Now, I really would rather be at $1000 or more, but I can find that money from other sources. ($2000 completely replaces my day job, so if I can do that I will at least be satisfied!) But who wants to stop at a few thousand? Who wouldn't want to make $5000 or $10000 a month? (#firstworldproblems!)

According to the many articles out there about CC, it is possible to make good money. Especially if writers are able to land private jobs. 

Now I also write at Textbroker, but that site is very hit-or-miss. Especially since some of the topics are just irritating. Who wants to write 300 words about carpet fibers for a measly $4.90? I don't! I wonder who actually writes that stuff.

So here's what I want to do this year:

1. Report how many articles and the topic I write about each day. 
Maybe I'll even post my profile or something, so you can see what I'm writing about.

2. Report my earnings at the end of each month. 
I want to see if the variables make a difference.

If you are interested in my articles, see here: https://www.constant-content.com/Author/68849-Lynn_Swayze-details-0.htm