Life Lessons
When I Earn Nothing From My Articles
Ideally, I should feel awful; On the contrary, I felt motivated
You heard me. Most of my articles don’t make a single penny. It’s not because the item is not part of the distribution plan. They are part of the MPP, yet most of my articles worth nothing. The truth is I am not bored to write, yet instead, the following demotivating facts and awful truths motivate me to the sky. Are you going through the same phase, and do you feel the same? Then let me speak up for you.
Articles don’t get viewership and readership.
Many of my articles don’t bring both “ship.” It could be the title and subtitle of my articles. Possibly they are not strong enough to draw attention from other readers, or maybe the topics I am covering are not enticing. Medium does not curate most of my articles, hence not given out in the relevant subjects. So my piece of work doesn’t hit a bigger audience and doesn’t get a chance to be a star in the limelight.
Most of the writing experts say, pick a trending topic. To decide, rely on the available trends and analytics tools to bring forward such a topic list, develop those which will help you to be a star.
I want to write what I feel like writing.
That’s what I do. Medium is a “medium” to express me. I don’t self restrict myself on the topics and content. I don’t google for topics. I notice the world and closely following what’s happening around the world. That coverage gives me enough topics to write more or less. That’s how I practice, be it on the media platform or other programs.
Versatility is the key here. I tend to venture into various topics, both comfortable and uncomfortable, with the sureness that I should be able to.
I learn from one of the articles that, at times, the most informative or standout article doesn’t get curated or distributed. Those articles are just underrated. Maybe those are not so popular and not targeted by medium curators.
Curated articles don’t bring in anything.
That’s probably the worst part of it. After much anticipation, I do get a notification update says, your article is curated; although the majority of my articles are not curated, yet more or less are. Those curated one’s are having good viewership and readership, stats are lovely, but the member reading time sinks to the bottom. The nice-looking graph doesn’t give me the fortune to smile anymore. I am sure many of you have faced the same situation. I don’t have a cohesive answer for it.
At one point, I am on the moon by looking at the stats; on the other hand, I am still on the same planet, facing the bitter reality.
Followers are not following me.
When I pen each article, I am picturing myself with a broad audience in front of me. I am reckoning that my network is reading my articles enthusiastically with a gripping smile on them. From the moment I publish an article, I am waiting for their responses, and my heart leaps out when I get notifications and responses.
Just face it and move on. I always think that I am targeting my audience. I am writing for my audience, although I am not so adept at it. The truth is, my followers, they do not understand me. The fact demotivates me, but withal I am writing almost every day.
Perhaps my topics don’t hold a strong point, and my articulation doesn’t excite them anymore.
Conflicts with my vocabulary
I rely on many other external tools to obtain help on vocabulary. I continuously struggle to find the right words and tones to express myself. I really do admire those articles written by fantastic authors using spectacular wordings and statements, that always makes me think how do they do that?
I press out my articles in simple wordings or relatively simple direct communication mode; nothing is dashing and eye-catching. My problem with my vocabulary doesn’t stop me from writing more.
Ideally, The truths, facts, realities I mentioned demotivates me, but on the contrary, those bitter truths motivate me, and those underlying facts are my pillar and my strength.
I am not a born writer; writing is my self-developed skill. Day by day, I am polishing my writing skills by closely observing and by reading others’ works.
The single thing I am proud to say out loud is that I always write from my heart.
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