Could My 13,000+ Followers Please Step up?

I need your help

I have been writing on this platform since mid-2018 and have yet broken the $100 mark. I don’t think I am the greatest writer, but I know I am not bad. I have over 13,000 followers but I make poop in money. I love writing here because I can write about anything and I write in many genres. That may be the problem.

Yes, I write for money because I get social security each month and most of it goes to rent. Can you believe that?

Writing for me is about my life adventures. You see I am seventy, proud of it, so I have a few things to say. And I have said them in over 600 articles. This year, so far, has been better, but the article was a rant about living in south Florida. What’s that about?

Some of you might say “stop complaining” and “no one wants to hear about your exploits, old lady.” Is that it? I just don’t understand it.

13,000+ have followed me but a pittance of those read my articles, less than 1,600 in 30 days and only about 138 fans. Either I need to do better or Medium does. It looks like it’s me. I feel I am at the end of my rope.

Right now, I am in a slump and am not so motivated to write as I was the first year. I found the other day that my stories from 2018 are not on the platform anymore. I wrote 23 chapters of a book I was going to publish and it is gone. Thank goodness I downloaded everything for myself. Does this mean I can re-post them as new? So many questions and never any answers from the “help” line.

Now I am sure I will get some posts to this saying “get off the platform if you are not happy,” “why do you write on here if you are so unhappy with it” and “no one needs to hear what you have to say” although in truth most every comment I get is usually more positive and helpful than that, so thanks for that. I am a sensitive person and take everything to heart as I feel it is a reflection of how well I am doing.

So, day to day, I struggle with posting my viewpoints, past experiences with homelessness, narcissistic behavior from a spouse, mental disorder of a spouse, financial and mental abuse towards me, and what it’s like to have twins at forty-four. All of these things I write about as I feel they should be known so no one else has to live through it. Others will at least have this information and be aware of what is going on.

I also write about the good stuff: recipes that I come up with, having a wonderful relationship (finally) with a wonderful person at my age, how I cope with financial insecurity, having grown twins living with me, and helping me through this.

Will they ever be able to leave and live their own lives? Will I ever be able to have a life of my own with my partner without worrying about them?

I have so much more to write about so please just come by and say hello, and read my posts. Thanks for your help.

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Jo Ann Harris is an author, parent, book devotee, writer, copywriter, and film fanatic. She is an autodidact who learns about everything and rows her own boat. She grew up and worked in Atlanta, Georgia, and lived there for sixty years. She writes articles about love, hope, personal life stories, advice, and poems. She is a published author with an article published in Woman’s World magazine in October 2017.