Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com promo-ed the LK Article Challenge on the EZA blog on December 7, and I just got the notification this morning. How cool, right?

Check out the post and leave a comment there about your experience with the Challenge.

Welcome to Day 39 of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge.

Here’s today’s tip:

Try to provide a steady stream of articles (one a day or one every few days) to article directories. Don’t worry about writing dozens of articles and submitting them all at once. Slow and steady wins the race here, too.

Sometimes we can get so caught up in this challenge, we forget what our actual goal is in writing and submitting to article directories.

Our actual goal is -  driving more traffic to our websites and blogs.

The best way to do that with articles for article directories is to provide a steady stream of articles rather than submitting dozens at a time and then not submitting any more for weeks or even months.

Think of it this way - article marketing is like a marathon, not a sprint.

Start off too quickly and you might lose energy before you finish the race.

But pace yourself, and continue on slow and steady, and you’ll get to the finish line.

In this case, that means you just need to keep writing and submitting an article or two on a regular basis.

Welcome to Day 27 of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge!

Here’s today’s tip:

Don’t Take Rejection Personally - Just Move On and Remain Professional at All Times.

As a writer, the worse feeling in the world is rejection.

When we write articles for article directories, having our articles rejected can make us feel worse than being rejected by a paying market because, after all, we’re offering our articles to these directories for FREE!

Plus, we’re trying to HELP our readers, for goodness sakes.

How can any directory NOT want our work?

But the thing is, each article directory has specific submission requirements, and often these directories are so swamped with submissions, it’s impossible for them to offer more than a standard response as to why they’ve rejected our work, or worse yet, decided our articles are not a good “fit” for their directory, overall.

If you’re rejected by a specific article directory, don’t spend your precious article writing energy emailing back and forth, trying to get back in with that directory.

Instead, use your energy to move on to another directory.

You’ll probably find that your articles are a better “fit” for another directory, and they’ll be accepted quickly as long as you follow their submission requirements to the letter.

So, don’t take the rejection personally.

With thousands of people submitting to article directories daily, they really don’t have time to reject your work for personal reasons.

Heck, most article directories have dozens of people reviewing articles, so each time you submit an article to a directory a different person will be reviewing it.

In fact, the people in charge of the directories probably don’t even know WHO you are - which is why directories’ reasons for rejection can be so unspecific and baffling sometimes.

But, you KNOW you’re a good writer, with much to offer readers.

So don’t take rejection personally, and remain professional at all times.

Keep writing and submitting your articles until you find those article directories that ARE a perfect “fit” for the types of information you have to offer!

Thanks to Chris Knight and EzineArticles.com, for helping us get the word out about the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge by blogging about it today on the EzineArticles.com blog. Read what Chris and others have to say.

Then get ready to write and submit your articles to www.ezinearticles.com - one of the best article directories on the Internet.