Why New Writers Should Stop Checking Their Stats And Do These Instead
An easier way to improve your output
You’re new to the platform, I understand because I’m in the same shoe. I feel exactly how you feel. If you click on my profile you will see that I only have a very small number of followers. I think I clicked the check story stats link for my first article about three times a day and this is the same for the next nine. And I found something.
I love to write about mysterious occurrences that happened several years ago and also true crime but I often feel sad when I see low views on my stats, to be honest, it discourages me to keep writing. I completely forgot that I’m new and this is normal. I joined a few publications that have several thousands of followers hoping to see my stats improve and they did but I still thought my articles should do better than that.
The headline is checking your stats while still new to the platform will only facilitate your unwillingness to keep writing. It should take you some time to be good at it. Like Ayodeji Awosika said in his YouTube video, “I hope medium can restrict new writers from viewing their stats and earnings so that they can focus on their creativity”
I don’t like begging people to follow and also the follow-to-follow scheme, it makes me feel like a lazy writer who is taking the easy way out. I’m not criticizing those who are actively involved in it. It makes you meet the requirement to join the MPP but you should know that they are not your genuine readers, in other words, they don’t care about your content.
Stop checking your stats and do this instead
I think the amount of time you put into a job determines the result you will see. If you can spend six hours a day writing then you should expect a better result than someone who barely spends an hour. If the case is the opposite then you haven’t been doing some of the things below.
Follow writers who are at the top of the game and read their content each time they publish.
Join publications and review what their followers love to read.
Make your headlines as catchy as they can be and I’m not talking about clickbait.
Write every day.
Return claps and reply to all your comments. This tells your followers that you are also interested in what they know.
Use catchy pictures that follow your content.
