You can get cheap articles and rewrite them and maximize your time vs. writing from scratch. Writing brand new articles takes a lot of time.
If your command of English is decent, and you have the time you could in theory rewrite a 500 word article in ten minutes. So, an hour 40 mins for ten articles of content is not a bad investment. I would publish on my blog first (damit its MY work) and only then publish to EzineArticles. You can also use tools like AVR to convert written content to video and publish to 15 video engines quickly. If anyone needs the link let me know.