Publishing 101: Writing and Publishing Hubs With Focus

Writers want to publish long-term, high quality articles on the Internet, and one of these means is by publishing on hubpages. Often the more hubs the better and the more people who read these hubs the better off a writer feels. Of course you want to get traffic from Google, or be seen by Google, but often that is a small problem in comparison to this. You do need to publish your work first however.

You start to write and then you get distracted, perhaps the very thing you want to do is distracting, you know increasing traffic and getting more people commenting and writing that hub that will showcase to the world how great a writer you are. You have after all spent time and energy to write, edit and publish your work.

What most hub writers often forget is that it takes focus and time to write a good hub. There are a lot of great hub writers who write a hub each day or so, but they all have ways of writing when the going is hard. So without any more waste.... here are a few ways to focus on writing and publishing a great hub.

Set a Time: This may seem like a "okay easy" but really other than for work where you have to be there, writing is something we do-- for "fun". Or, ofr extra money. So, if you are writing a blog it is easy to write a post in a few minutes, but it is all the other things which need to be done that make setting a time so vital.

It is a commitment thing, if you want to write, you had better tell people that a time is set. Also tell yourself that between say 6-8 you will be writing. This is a start, but the key to setting a time is to actually do what you have set out to do.

In other words just write what you need to write in the time you give yourself.  it is a business so focus on what you have to do in say 15 minutes, and break it down to something small.

-- Add you amazon and links to this new hub.  Then add a photo.

--Add text that relates to the photo under the photo.

See simple, just break it down, and all that took was about 15 minutes.  By doing something small you gain a bit more focus on where you want your writing to go.

So, I'll work from here on in with this example: Writing and Publishing a hub. How long it takes, and how to focus on writing and publishing it.

Hubs are easy to write and publish, but if you want to do them well... it takes a bit of focus-- it also takes a lot of editing and re-writing before you publish a hub. The focus is on writing a great hub and then publishing that hub so that people will want to read it.

So you begin with a topic, in this case publishing a great hub or an online articles based upon this hub, you need to focus on what is important, the "content" of what people need to have a use for this hub, or will want to click on a link to this hub.

I do tend to look back at another hub and see how long it took me to write this hub. Personally it takes about 2 hours to get a hub completed, but after take time, and hit the "Save unpublished." button

Next i wait two or three days. I leave it alone, and I do not look at it. I leave it be.

This is where focus comes in: editing, or editing as best you can.

I focus on a few things, one the Internet is a big place and that people who will want to read my writing need to be able to find it. This is a business so the next step is re-reading what I have written.

I like to read out loud, and I have found from other hub writers that reading from the bottom up seems to help a lot more. I use spell check, which is great for finding basic spelling mistakes, but I also look for something that is even more important. Oh and by the way even the spell check does not "see" everything. (case in point my favorite misspelled word "the")

The content. I focus on the content, I could write all about publishing a hub, but if my content begins with how to publish a hub then goes on to how the hub can make you money, and then goes to how to edit it, and then finished off with linking...well that is not good content.  Besides the better the content the more likely that Google and other search engines will find your writing sooner.

Focus on how the whole hub looks, and reads. Does it follow one line? Is it focused on one topic?

The best way to focus on these questions is to trust your gut, if you are saying "I am confused" or "this does no seem correct." The quickest way to lose a focus is to double think these questions, which means really focus on the good things in a hub, and why you enjoyed writing it.

Publishing a hub really only takes about 5 hours, so anything longer means that you have either too long a hub, or that there is a lot of work to be done on this hub. Looking at the content is easy, but sometimes you simply need to focus on writing another hub to get better.

The last word: I love the idea of how to focus, but really focus only works when there is passion about something, so on hubpages there needs to be something that you passionate about.  Passionate about writing and passionate about showcasing great work and passionate of expanding where people will see your work. ( say Google and the other search engines this is a business after all!)

For me this is writing, and helping others. Yes, making money is great and adding new knowledge is awesome, but the thing that keeps me going is writing a hub that others can truly enjoy and find useful or funny or anything.

Publishing a hub takes focus, but also a willingness to focus on what is good about your writing and what is not so great. No one is a bad writer, everyone has room to improve and to enjoy what they do.

Focus on what you do best and keep going.

To your success.