Would Your Writing Be Different if you had lots of Money?

I came across a thought provoking post at Problogger - Would you blog differently if you had lots of money? Darren’s post was inspired by Anne Wayman’s

My initial reaction was:

• I wouldn’t do my blog on mortgages. But, I would continue my blog on self improvement (which doesn’t have any ads anyway)
• I would continue other commercial blogs, but less intensely more quality less quantity. My favourite blog at the moment is my Economics Blog. I receive several questions per day, and spend time answering them
• And I wouldn’t have to care about Google wanted at all!

This is How My Writing Would Change if I had plenty of Money

• Titles I wouldn’t worry about Choosing SEO titles, with lots of keywords
• Quality vs Quantity. I wouldn’t worry about quantity. I would only write where I could really offer something unique and interesting.
• Topics I would not worry about writing on profitable keywords like mortgages, credit cards, debt, and insurance.
• More Pictures. With more money (and therefore time) I would probably take more time with each post. I would like to spend more time learning how to use a digital camera and improve my photography. These would be used to illustrate my posts.
• More Research. I would like to spend more time researching certain articles. i.e. some articles need more research and background reading. If you want to be a problogger, you can’t afford to take 1 day per article (I try to have 10 posts per day at the moment)
• More Time. The first thing about having more money is that I would be able to retire from teaching. Therefore, I would have more time to spend writing.
• Less Comments I think I would comment less on other people’s blog. (When I comment, part of the motivation is to get traffic, not all the time, but quite often)

Of course, the hope is that one day blogging will enable me to earn passive income to support myself and be a full time writer. Therefore, in the future, I might like to try and write to publish a book rather than just publishing on a blog.

Note: I have been stretched for time recently. I have been spending my time adding short comments on other blogs, rather than posting on my own. Therefore, after adding a comment on problogger, I thought - why not make it into a post.

Quite often, bloggers can spend too long commenting and not enough time posting. This was definitely the case with me last week.

Another note on comments. I like what Doug said about how his blogging would change after becoming rich

“I’m not sure but I would gladly accept a sponsor to find out!