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One of the major challenges for part time writers is finding time to write, and even more so when things are busy in your real life.

With Alra, I am constantly writing notes down, considering plots, twists, character growth or degeneration and how they all intertwine with each other, this is a time consuming exercise.

In fact, most of the time I tend to stare blankly into my imagination, allowing my mind to subconsciencely create the story while on another level I try to piece together in words what is happening within  my mind.

This all takes time, and for me, I have to be alone with quietness dominating.

For the past few months this is not what I would call my usual circumstances.

I have moved country, I am now looking for work (I am not paid enough through my writing to quit my off line reliance on working for money) and basically running about doing stuff….. stuff that is not imagining or considering story lines and character reactions.

Lucky for me I have multiple chapters prewritten, but that is not the case with the blog posts.

ALL writing takes a certain degree of discipline, sometimes I have it, other times I dont.

Most times, even when I am not able to write, I am pondering the story, and craving another session of writing, I suppose it comes down to one small point….. I don’t write because I have to, I write because there is an inner compulsion, I don’t feel good when I don’t write.

So I guess I am lucky in a way as the motivation in internal and not forced by external pressures like a publisher wanting a book finished this week, although that would probably help me write even more…..

What this is about is a writer must write every day or the art will be lost.

Simple truth, hard fact.

Since I am learning so much about blogs and promoting them, I thought I would share a few things I have learnt to date, and that I have applied.

This week the key learning point has been getting my Page Rank higher.

This is a fairly important aspect to getting search engine traffic. The reasoning being is that the Page Rank indicates how close you are to the top spot for particular keywords.

The higher up you are in the list, the more traffic you get for free, and the people clicking the search engine links tend to be people looking for what you are doing.

Needless to say, it is a good thing to know a little bit about this subject. This is what I have learnt this week.

In order to get a higher PageRank there is a simple thing you can do, but first the theory behind the practice.

Every site gets ranked against keywords. One thing search engines look for is hyperlinks to other sites and hyperlinks leading to your site. The thinking behind this is when a person adds a link to their site it is a vote of trust in your site. This is a good thing.

This means the more links pointing to your site the better the Page Rank.

But there is more that can help you.

Most people focus entirely on getting links to their site. But there is almost equal value to having links that lead to other pages in your own site.

Let me repeat that….. putting in a link within your site adds value to your site ranking.

Amazing but true, and it is something you can control.

My guess is that you should apply this to your site, but do not over do it.

Now for the practice, remember this site is an online fantasy novel, if you want to read the first chapter of my fantasy novel click here.