Why I’m making one more desperate YouTube push before I quit for good

Earlier this week, I wrote about the number one reason people fail to make money writing online.

Writing is extremely rewarding mentally and creatively, but there are certainly days when it can feel like a grind.

Creatives have an important choice to make when they’re confronted with this resistance for the first time.

Can they overcome the protestations of their unconscious minds and press on, or will they take the easy way out?

The problem is that aspiring writers typically do what most people do when faced with something challenging: they quit.

The advantage I have as a writer is that I’ve done it as a career for the past, oh, 20 years or so, including about 11 as a working journalist.

When you’re forced to write every day — often on insanely tight deadlines — you learn to just do it. Period.

Over the past two months on this platform, I’ve made what some would consider a modest full-time salary.

That would have never happened had I quit when I hit my first patch of resistance back in October.

When I felt the resistance, I just leaned on my history as a writer and just … wrote.

But as an early-stage YouTuber with no background in broadcasting other than the occasional radio and TV appearances, my natural writer’s advantage doesn’t exist for video.