Hear me out. Success will come my friend. You’ll have your day. Just keep writing.
You aren’t getting the attention you feel you deserve. You’ve been trying for months. Your articles are based upon what you think people will want to hear. You joined Medium’s Partner Program and made $0.36. You’re ready to give up. In fact, yeah, screw it, you are giving up.
All the hours you put in… and for what? To make nothing? How dare they not recognize your talent. Wait, wait, hold on a second.
Didn’t you have someone comment on that first article you wrote? Did you not make $0.36 which most people never make off writing anything.
Surely with that 36 cents, you got a clap or two. That one individual person who said you were an inspiration wasn’t lying. You somehow showed up on their feed when they needed it the most.
I gave up on writing last year after a year on Medium. What I fail to realize is that writing on this platform is a slow process. I was earning money, but thought I was wasting my time.
I ended up deleting my account. Yes, all work gone. I couldn’t regret it more than I do today.
Not only was my work on current events, but it was a reflection of where I was in life. I could see myself through the words I was writing.
My fear of success set in. Numbers were growing every month, so why quit? I felt like I had nothing to offer, forget about those people that I touched with my story.
I started up again a month ago, vowing to give it my all. I’m a content creator plus researcher so writing kind of goes hand in hand.
I looked at all my feedback on Upwork, the freelancer site, and realized that I got quite a few compliments in my time writing for client’s.
When I was in the moment, I thought people weren’t being sincere. I thought they were just trying to be nice. What I didn’t realize is that I might actually have talent. That was my own self-esteem issue.
I started looking for work that made more than 1 cent a word. I took the leap and tried getting a gig that paid $250 for 1500 words. I’m not that good, my mind told me.
After all had finished, the guy was impressed. Never had I made that amount of money which probably took me two hours work.
So when you think your done, you’re not. Writers will always be led back to their passion. You are worth more than some statistic on a website.
You have to just go for it. Set your rate and stick to it. You deep down inside know if you are good at it.
For all that matters, don’t stop publishing. There’s someone that wants to hear your story. Even if you reach one person, that is really all that matters.
Take care and keep grinding.
