This Is Why 97% Of Writers Quit Medium After Their 3rd Story
When people follow me I often check their profile when I have the time for it.
I often see 1–3 stories published “a month ago” and then nothing.
They quit.
Writing on Medium, as on other social media platforms is not simple.
I know it from my experience.
I went from making 2 reads a day putting an hour of work into a single story to making +$200 dollars per story.
All that in 2 months.
A friend of mine started Medium the same day as I started.
He quit after writing 3 stories…
Why is that?
Comparison.
That’s your biggest enemy. Looking at other progress can be discouraging.
That’s my friend’s case. He was looking at me and thought he was doing something wrong because his stats were worse than mine…
Some people are progressing faster than you do, because of some reason. Looking at that makes you compare yourself to them at the result you can want to quit writing thinking that you are not good enough.
Is the solution not reading other writers’ stories?
No.
This might sound controversial, but you should still read stories of people who are progressing faster than you.
Why is that?
Because they are doing something right.
To succeed you should read a lot of more successful writers.
Haven’t I said before that looking at others’ success can be discouraging and can make you quit?
I said.
Looking can’t hurt, what’s can is comparing. To not compare you should have a strong will.
My advice to you – never give up. Never compare. We all have a different path in this world.
And often when your progress is too fast at the beginning- that means it’ll slow down in the future…
When it seems the hardest to continue it’s the moment when it’ll become easier.
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