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Not Earning From Writing? Read This.

Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi
The Side Hustle School
2 min readJan 28, 2025

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Hey friend,

Not earning with your writing? Then this one is for you.

Stop whining about it and discussing with your friends about how miserable you are — that doesn’t help.

Instead, work on the four action steps I’ve mentioned and tell me a few months later how that helped you grow 😉

Note: I’m going to keep this honest because it doesn’t help you or me if I sugar-coat it for you. I want 2025 to be the year that you grow,

1/ You only write to earn money

You’ve seen people like me talk about making a living writing, and that’s the only reason you do it.

This is a recipe for unhappiness.

You see, at least in our Indian society, people have always picked professions like engineering because they were told this is the only way to a secure and high-paying career — a picture of a happy life.

Most of my writing students are engineers and aren’t exactly happy with their jobs.

Do you see the pattern?

Happy engineers are those who are obsessive about fixing problems.

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