Speed links: When to write, how to comment

Hit a trifecta of strong posts in my morning reading.

1. Zoning out for writers
I run warm and cold on copyblogger.com, but here's a fine piece by Michael Steizner. "Five Tips for Finding Writing Time" promises, "Despite the challenges we face, there are proven tactics that can really help us sit down and write." Here's one of them:

Identify Your Productivity Zone
Figure out when you are most able to write. For me, it’s between 9am and 11am. You know you’re in the zone when you can crank out writing. When in the zone, I can easily write a few well-written pages of copy. When I’m out of the zone, I’m lucky to write a single paragraph all day. Find the zone and you’re on your way to more productive writing.

Michael goes on to say, "When in the Zone, ONLY write." I'm nodding like a bobblehead. When the copy is good and you're atop a gusher, cash in.

In a related post, Jurgen Wolff of TIme to Write surveys "The Creative Environment for Writers."

2. Earn your comment links
ProBlogger spends some quality time on the ups and downs of commenting for the sake of drawing traffic. Most savvy bloggers do it in the early going, at least, but there are plenty of ways to make yourself a pest even if you're not technically spamming. Here's Darren Rowse on "Excessive self linking," something he witnesses daily.

The practice of leaving links inside posts is not something that bothers me too much -- unless it gets excessive. A well placed link back to something you’ve written ... can really add to a conversation. ... What does risk annoying others is when you include lots of links to yourself in every comment you make and/or when the links are irrelevant to the topic and/or when you just leave a link without saying anything else. Keep links relevant and in moderation. ...

3. She's a rich girl ...
"Case Study of a Teenage Millionaire." Dosh Dosh looks over WhateverLife.com and has some advice for its creator, a 17-year-old dropout who earns as much as $70k a month being cute and wry.

Her first Adsense paycheck was $2,790 and she has already rejected a $1.5 million buyout offer. I’m referring to Ashley Qualls, the founder of Whateverlife.com, a free MySpace layouts website. ... Inspirational, no doubt. And a clear example of the massive potential that the web has when it comes to generating substantial and consistent income.