Stop with the Monkey Business

How Did I Stop Monkey Around And Kept Writing For 134 Days

There will be a lot of bananas…I mean writing!

No coins? No worries. Here, have a freebie from me!

We always have that one monkey on our backs.

How the heck am I going to be consistent with writing?

What if all turns to shit?

Why am I even doing this?

It’s not going to be all funny as a barrel of monkeys. There will be time we have to put on our monkey suits and get to work.

Now, let’s grab a banana and swing in.

Stop monkeying around:

Come on stop throwing poop to your audience.

If I wanted to grow as a writer, I had to play this game for real. I had to commit to a volume. Something sustainable for me and my busy work schedule.

I need to keep a regular consistency in publishing articles.

I started slow. I wasn’t used to writing. Now that I found my sweet spot volume, I write 5 stories a week.

Readers want to keep reading your stories.

If you stop feeding them with engaging stories, they will jump to another branch

You decide to eat a banana instead of writing most of the days, they will jump to another branch.

Your schedule is irregular, readers will keep swinging until they find better trees.

They’ll stop giving monkeys about you.

I don’t give a monkey’s:

If it fails it fails.

You don’t need to pick someone’s fleas if you get sad.

There will be many stories that readers will not give a monkey. That’s fine, you don’t need to be like a monkey on a stick. Better days will come.

I used to get demotivated whenever a story sucked hard. I wasn’t cut out for writing, I thought.

There were times, I’d be a monkey’s uncle! What was I experiencing? The story resonated with the readers!

Let stories crash and burn, it is necessary to understand what the readers want to hear from you.

With time the monkey in you will understand what tree to climb.

Like a monkey on a stick:

Embrace uncertainty.

Be ready to swing it, nothing is certain in the writing game.

I failed a lot with my stories. I provide stories with no bananas, no rewards, and no engagement.

I used to vomit a lot of monkey see, monkey do type of writing.

I gave up the monkey talk and put on the monkey suit.

It’s time to swing it my own way, and not be afraid to fail or the uncertainty.

Being your own voice brings a lot of doubts, it requires constant practice so the natural you comes to the surface.

As funny as a barrel of monkeys:

Do your thing.

There is more to life than being a copycat.

I looked back and read some of my articles, I couldn’t identify myself. I sounded like most people, and there was no me in the story.

Any story I publish now, there must be a funny, or goofy me there.

Whatever you like to write about. Will it be a dog collecting poop, throwing chunks of turd to people, or what is it like to live with a crazy cat person. Write all about it but have a bit of yourself there.

You will have an audience for whatever you decide to write.

I’ll be a monkey’s uncle:

Be amazed at what could the future brings.

I often asked why I was doing this.

Was it to keep me busy in my evenings? Was it because I like to talk about dog poop? Or grease monkeys?

I knew that without a purpose, I’d give up on the next shiny object. I wrote down what I wanted to do, rolled up my sleeves, and started. I never stopped since.

Like most of you, I want freedom. I want to enjoy life before it’s too late.

I committed to making this work. I commit to writing every day.

Find your purpose. Ask yourself why you want this, is writing the right thing for you? Will you see yourself writing in 5 years?

Answer those questions, and you will stop with the monkey business.

I hope I haven’t made a monkey out of myself telling you all this. Monkeys will fly out of my butt before that ever happens.

I will see you around throwing bananas at each other.

Ok, I will stop now with all the monkey talk.

If you want to know what will make me tick in the next two months, check out this piece right here:

Thank you for reading, if you like what you’re reading don’t forget to follow and subscribe to read more of my writing.

I’ll see you in the next one.