Why 90% of Writers Don’t Grow At The Rate They Want To?

To get to good, you must deal with bad first.

Lipika Sahu
New Writers Welcome
4 min readAug 27, 2024

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Wouldn’t it be nice if writing followed some rules, like in maths?

After 15 stories, you are an accomplished writer…
After 100 stories, a top writer…
After five years… a millionaire.

But sadly, that’s not happening.

Everyone says that starting is the biggest problem. But I disagree. In writing, starting is the lesser problem. Growing is the larger one.

Starting feels great. You are proud to be a ‘writer.’ Finally, your ideas are liberated on a page — soaking up every drop of this heightened optimism.

But weeks later, you are not ‘feeling’ right. “No, I wasn’t expecting immediate success,” you tell yourself. And keep at it. But no matter what you are ‘doing,’ you feel stuck.

Like in a pool of melted candy.

Most writers will hang their boots at this point.

But before you cut the chord and say — that's it, check if one of the below things is not to be blamed.

The power of volume.

Whoever said — quality over quantity — never knew the potential of doing more.

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