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Truth-Writing for pennies pays better than my savings account.

I read the headlines of how people make $100 on an article, a million in a month (okay just one of those). You’ve seen them. The unending stream of “I’ve made a fortune, so can you” posts on Medium. I’ve published 154 pieces in 11.5 months and I have $ 88.82. Not a fortune.

I am depressed. Why put all this effort into writing daily for pennies? After a year of writing daily the charm of a little green notification bell may not be enough? Did discovering my friends couldn’t even clap for my work send me down a spiral of despondency?

I spent three days not writing, thinking about not writing, wondering why I bother to write any way. I allowed doubt and despair to shade my confidence. Could it be Occam’s razor, the simplest explanation, I’m not actually any good.

I watched my views plunge down to single digits. If no one is reading my work then it is just mental masterbation after all. Though enjoyable, the act should be kept to oneself.

A reframing

I had produced a piece of writing I referred to as “The Document” for my five brothers. It accompanied artwork I commissioned commemorating our families arrival in the Americas back in 1710. I was afraid to send “The Document.” What if they hated it? I printed the document, assembled the package and with great fear sent it off a two weeks after Christmas.**

To my surprise, and joy, each brother commented on the quality of the writing. The story was good, the research solid. They were honored to own a copy of “The Document.” They are harsh critics, if it weren’t good they would not hesitate to say so.

I needed to reframe my thinking- I took a look at the articles that had fans, the most views, the most comments. There is no pattern that I can discern.

My one article that did well, views-wise, reached 2.3 K people. 95% of whom were external-so yay views! As the majority of you Medium creators know-nearly no pennies.

My successful article was on this very same topic- Writing daily literally pays way better than my savings account does!

To pull myself out of my writer’s woes I revisit the article, re-read the responses and reframe my concept of investment.

Look at it rationally, writing daily is a huge investment in yourself.

keeps your brain and fingers agile

improves your typing speed if nothing else

helps you make contact with other humans

clears the emotional clutter from the grey matter

saves you thousands of dollars in therapy bills

I’m glad I took $50 from savings and invested in me. I’ll do it again in 2022. Who knows, maybe I’ll hit that 2.5k internal reads lotto this year.

Here’s a second opinion on why writing on Medium is a good investment

* FYI mailing packages two weeks after Christmas cost half what it did the year before. The postman told me the USA Post Service jacks the price of shipping from Thanksgiving to Christmas, then returns to normal after New Years.

For my external readers, consider joining Medium, one of the rare commercial free spaces left on the internet!!

Save for shameless self-promotion :-)