Contentions are a bane to writing

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ve a life to live and I’m doing it. This means I’m in a phase where I need to reorganize. Am I professional or not? I suppose that after writing for 20+ years you become that with or without a degree in English or Journalism or whatever. Isn’t it?!My energy is draining and the will to continue just the past two days. I mean the grind of writing on Medium. The joy is gone. I’m doing life. It has me in its grip right now so I’m not able to get inspired enough to put out much more than 3–4 pieces per week. Is it worth my focus? If I wish to make money then the obvious answer is yes. I do. Although as I said I’m not here to make a steady routine like some writers do. I tried that, actually. It’s just not Me.Some say that all you need is a steady 3–6 articles or blog or vlog or whatever you enjoy posting here. Then you are supposed to watch the money grow, but only if you spend the rest of the time reading and commenting on others' writing. That's fine but I’m not much of a reader anymore, the reading I did when I was young wasn’t a library full although I had wished it could have been.So what contentions do I have besides the lack

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of reciprocation? It’s all well and good to state you’re going to do X amount of reading but likely won’t receive the same. Opinions abound about what actually happens on this platform and a lot of it is just random. It’s an individual thing as well as a technical algorithmic thing. Nobody’s stats is going to reflect the same things although there is much in common.The writers I do get responses from are frustratingly small and short-lived. I find we are mostly all fickle here! There is too much to do or read and too little time to focus on the writing. I don’t enjoy that. So that’s where I’m at right now. The only reason I’m not writing more poetry is that it's a lost cause. I tried my best for the last 20 years to hone and participate in learning new forms and now it’s coming down to creating a chapbook or small poetry book or nothing, nothing but the articles this platform seems to favor.❤Thank you❤ For reading, clapping, highlighting, and commenting. The amount of time spent does count and I appreciate that. If you need more explanation please look around there are plenty who’ve already posted this information.</article></body>

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Don’t you know? Writers on Medium know that writing is dependent on Readers or reading others' work. Yet how many of us actually have regular readers? I wonder. Email subscribers, I appreciate you! But once again the contention I feel is that none of my subscribers or only a few actually read my writing. I cannot possibly reciprocate 1.2k subscribers or readers!! The recommended amount of reading per day isn’t something I attend to knowing. Numbers are not my bag.

So my main contention is that if I do a certain routine and people come to expect this then the readers drop off to zero when I don’t produce something daily or continue as I have been doing.

I guess I have to reiterate. I have a life to live and I’m doing it. This means I’m in a phase where I need to reorganize. Am I professional or not? I suppose that after writing for 20+ years you become that with or without a degree in English or Journalism or whatever. Isn’t it?!

My energy is draining and the will to continue just the past two days. I mean the grind of writing on Medium. The joy is gone. I’m doing life. It has me in its grip right now so I’m not able to get inspired enough to put out much more than 3–4 pieces per week. Is it worth my focus? If I wish to make money then the obvious answer is yes. I do. Although as I said I’m not here to make a steady routine like some writers do. I tried that, actually. It’s just not Me.

Some say that all you need is a steady 3–6 articles or blog or vlog or whatever you enjoy posting here. Then you are supposed to watch the money grow, but only if you spend the rest of the time reading and commenting on others' writing. That's fine but I’m not much of a reader anymore, the reading I did when I was young wasn’t a library full although I had wished it could have been.

So what contentions do I have besides the lack of reciprocation? It’s all well and good to state you’re going to do X amount of reading but likely won’t receive the same. Opinions abound about what actually happens on this platform and a lot of it is just random. It’s an individual thing as well as a technical algorithmic thing. Nobody’s stats is going to reflect the same things although there is much in common.

The writers I do get responses from are frustratingly small and short-lived. I find we are mostly all fickle here! There is too much to do or read and too little time to focus on the writing. I don’t enjoy that. So that’s where I’m at right now. The only reason I’m not writing more poetry is that it's a lost cause. I tried my best for the last 20 years to hone and participate in learning new forms and now it’s coming down to creating a chapbook or small poetry book or nothing, nothing but the articles this platform seems to favor.

❤Thank you❤ For reading, clapping, highlighting, and commenting. The amount of time spent does count and I appreciate that. If you need more explanation please look around there are plenty who’ve already posted this information.