How do I improve my writing star rating at Helium?

I am confused about writing star rating. I have rating star one of them for reading and rating. Do you know how the writing stars work? I think its how many you write.

Currently I have 36 articles at Helium and 2 writing stars with a writing score of 82.76% Just going to give my own comments on the comments. Bladestorm's just stating the not-so-obvious rules regarding writing stars Nishdan gives plenty of wrong advice. It's general consensus on the Helium boards that you should be prepared to see your writing score drop when you write to writing contests. Whether an article is a marketplace title also has no relevance on writing stars(unless your article gets sold, in which case see Bladestorm's comment) Writing score also isn't affected by how often you write. I also note that Nishdan has no writing stars and claims to be the Sub-Steward for Online Jobs channel(on her Helium profile)at Helium despite not having a steward badge. She does have an impressive number of articles written on Helium though, a total of 858 articles. Regarding Ritchelle's point that "they like personal approaches even if it is something scientific you write about", my observations differ from his. I find that which article has better ratings depends rather more heavily on which one seems to be the one with better info. It might be just me and Ritcheelle having different interpretations of the same data though. Paid2write gives some very good advice. Regarding Heartbreaker's advice about writing to titles that already have several articles, I have to say that's a new approach. I tend more towards "find titles with submissions that are terrible and don't really address the title" so I tend to find those with 1 or 2 articles since it's highly unlikely that 38 out of 50 articles are terrible (And it would be a painful experience to for me to read through all of them if that were indeed the case :P) Not saying that I think it's a wrong approach though, it's just a matter of preferences. I do agree with him on using the Helium forums for critiquing. There's a section there devoted to critquing your articles and from personal experience, I can attest that they're quite detailed.

It took me a long time to get my first star, but now I have 3 writing stars and I have maintained them for several months. I got my third star by leapfrogging older articles, and by adding a better article to titles that have only two poor quality articles. (This is a bit of a risk because being rated 2 out of 3 moves it out of the top 25% bracket). When I do a leapfrog I always rework the opening paragraph to make it more catchy, and find other ways to improve the article. If the leapfrog is accepted the article rises in the ratings and my score increases.

Apart from writing quality articles I would suggest writing to titles that have mnay articles. Just think if you write to an title that has only 4 articles you need to be number one to get in the top 25% whereas if you write to a title that has 50 articles or 100 articles you only need to be in the top 12 or top 25 respectively. This is what I do when I want to improve my writing score near the end of the month. You could also go onto the helium forum and ask for a critique of your article and perhaps a mentor could suggest some ways to improve. Another idea is to leapfrog your articles, perhaps add more ideas and content and see if it helps. Look at the articles rated above you and see what angle and ideas they possess. I have been quite lucky with my stars I have had a bonus star since I have been at helium but I notice the more articles I write the more my writing score decreases and puts me at risk of losing my bonus star.

First off, nice amount of articles. Second, there are several reasons why you might not be getting writing stars, here are the most likely: 1. Make sure all your articles rate highly on Helium. Only articles that rate above the 75th percentile mark count for stars. If a lot of your articles are lower than that, you won't get many stars. 2. Creative writing articles do NOT count for stars, so if a lot of your articles are in creative writing, they don't count sadly. 3. Articles bought by publishers in the marketplace do NOT count for stars either. This is why I only have 1 star as well, I have written a lot of articles but most were sold on the marketplace. Though I really don't care about stars that much, so I don't bother trying to keep it high.

i became a member there last february 4 and before they started the launching of country and language specific sites about last week (which terribly affected my logging in here in the philippines) i actually got 2 writing stars there already and became a premium writer twice already. am from the philippines so english is just my second language. i think i didn't get it quite right the first few days until i noticed that they like personal approaches even if it is something scientific you're writing about. also, it helps to exhaust yourself in proofreading everything. mistakes come up in one form or another. last one itsy bitsy bit of help read your article aloud beofre you submit it. sometimes a sentence or two would just sound totally out of sync. this will pave the way to a revision of a sentence or two that can totally change how the article comes across. this is also where the article's personal character sprouts. this is where you would rather hear a word repeated thrice and would tastefully insert three periods for effect. try it.

To get more writing stars, you must write frequently. You must write more articles and the more articles you have, it must be highly rated. Other things to do: -Write to competetive titles. - Write to marketplace titles. - Take part in contests. If you win, your writing star score improves dramatically. - Write regularly. If you do not write for a month, the writing score drops and your stars vanish too. So if you are determined to get more writing stars, write regularly.

Have you looked at the help pages on Helium? I just signed up and I seem to remember something about rating other people? I don't know; I am still figuring it all out.