My Current Top 3 Earners Are All About One Thing
You can write repeatedly and successfully about the same topic if you just observe a few rules
My stats reveal that my top-earning stories are all about cheating in relationships. Infidelity is apparently a subject of great interest for a number many people.
The subject inspires a lot of curiosity perhaps because, from the start, cheating means different things to different people, and there is usually a lot of contention when looking at the act from the point of view of the cheaters in contrast to that of those who were cheated on.
Some of the many points of interest or questions it raises include:
- why do cheaters cheat?
- how come some cheaters justify the act?
- what acts exactly amounts to violations of the exclusivity agreement especially when it comes to micro-cheating? One study found that about 70% of people haven’t discussed with their partners what amounts to cheating,
- what are the implications?
- how are couples supposed to deal with the act once it happens?
- is there a future for the relationships? and many more.
And without further ado…the winners are:
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“The Surprising Things When Cheaters Cheat,” gets most of the credit for my breaking into the $100 club back in December 2021 with its earings for that month, and continues to earn a relatively decent amount to date. The story was also not curated, I might add.
Other similarities the stories share apart from the topic include that all the stories were published in one of my favorite pubs, Hello, Love. Now, I do self-publish once in while and some of those stories do just fine but overall, my stories in pubs do better.
The stories were also all 5 to 6 minutes long.
“'The Surprising Things When Cheaters Cheat,' gets most of the credit for my breaking into the $100 club back in December 2021..."
Honorable mentions
By engagement:
This next story, in particular, published in New Writers Welcome is by far my most popular story in terms of claps and the number of readers that left comments.
By number of views:
Takeaways:
- You can write about the same topic repeatedly and successfully as long as you write from different angles and, as Kevin Shan advises you should write from scratch each time and not just copy and paste. In any case, writing about the same topic more than once will be understandable because perspectives can change with new knowledge and experience.
- Writing about the same topic multiple times obviously means publishing more stories but it also makes you less susceptible to perfectionism.
- The more questions a topic raises the more angles from which you can write about.
- It's perhaps a no-brainer but longer stories earn more. A while back medium data scientists found that 7 minutes was the optimal story length. However, my top-earning stories are all just under that but they did okay by my standards.
- When you have a topic of interest it pays the more stories you write about it and remember, with every new story, you are sure to reach new readers who reading you for the first time.
Best of luck, fellow writers!
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