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I'm unsure why some people insinuate that someone who writes a lot of articles must be sacrificing quality. I write 100s of articles per week (for my own marketing and for client assignments) and I do not feel that I sacrifice quality in any of them. I average 25 articles per day, based on word count, each with the same level of quality and attention put in them.

I have over 10 years experience in article writing as a professional. Someone with 4 years of experience writing articles may not be able to do the number that I can but they should certainly be able to write more in a shorter period of time than someone who has been writing articles for 6 months. The more you write, the better you will get as well as the faster you will get.

EzineArticles is one example of an article submission site encouraging a balance of quality and quantity with challenges like 100 articles in 100 days (HAHD). These challenges foster that by giving authors who want to write more the motivation to do so. A lot of people see this and feel that it encourages quantity over quality. The debate is brought up with nearly every one of these challenges.

My goal for this HAHD challenge is to write 1,000 articles in 100 days and I assure you that my quality of writing will not be sacrificed in any way.

Some people sign up for these challenges and don't make it to 100 articles but if they do 30, or 50, or even 75, that may be more than they would have written had they not been motivated by the challenge. I think anyone who attempts it, whether you make it to 100 or not, has succeeded.

Some people argue that challenges like this do not reward the author with quality submissions but only the ones who can write the most. I can see how this could be perceived to be true. But let's compare it to other write-a-thons I have participated in. What about a challenge to write a certain number of words on a novel in a certain period of time? All of the authors get pledges based on how many words they write.

There are rewards for those novelists who write the most number of words throughout the duration of the write-a-thon. Is this to say that whoever writes the most will have a poorer quality finished novel than those who write slower? Why do we assume faster writing means less attention to detail?

I am known to be quite a perfectionist and when it comes to writing, my passion, I take it very seriously. I make mistakes just like anyone else but I take every step possible to ensure anything I write is of the upmost quality. My career and my reputation depend on it which also means my family and children depend on it.

These types of challenges are there to boost the number of article submissions and encourage authors to write more. We should all be trying to write better while also writing more but in the end, the challenge isn't about who has the best quality- only that you have the most that are of quality to pass the basic standards.

Sure, we'd all love a gold star stating that our articles are better than someone else's. But honestly, article submission site editors are not magazine editors. It's not their job to pick out the cream of the crop, only to ensure the "crop" is staying within certain basic guidelines on quality.

About the Author:

Lisa Mason is a freelance writer with a specialty in Internet content and SEO articles and the author of How to Earn a Living Writing for the Internet as well as two poetry anthologies and a how-to poetry book. She has written thousands of articles, hundreds of ebooks and thousands of website pages and related content in her 10+ years as a professional writer.