The Hardest Pill About Writing Online I’ve Had to Swallow
And one that most writers struggle to
I’m having my best month on this platform in terms of earnings but I feel absolutely miserable.
I’m refreshing my stats every few seconds, severely procrastinating on writing, and inadvertently thinking about every new article — in terms of its potential earnings as opposed to enjoying the process and providing value to my readers.
Moreover, a bitter fact about writing online that I thought I had come to accept has resurfaced.
The One Thing We Just Cannot Predict
In the first few months of writing, one pattern became quite evident — the ones I least expected to perform well ended up performing the best and vice versa.
With most other writers, even the top guns noticing the same, I took it for a bitter fact and somehow digested it.
But this month, this pattern reached its pinnacle and my stomach’s gone for a toss — an article I whipped out from scratch in less than 45 minutes has become my highest earning article ever and one that I poured a lot of effort, love, and time into is lying in oblivion.
As unfair as it seems, you just cannot predict how your…
