Writing Every Day for 07 Days Made Me Cry

I will never take the pressure to publish my writings every day

Whoever says or supports the statement that “Success comes from writing daily on Medium or any other blogging platform” is awful.

Screw you!

I was scrolling through my Medium feed a few days back and found an article titled ‘You, Will, Earn $1,000 from Medium in 3 Months.’ My stories were not performing well for the past three months. So, I decided to take a look.

The author suggests the following two things to do to become a winner.

➰Write every day for 90 days(03 months). ➰Read and engage with other writer’s work.

I was engaging with fellow writer’s work but not publishing it every day. So, I decided to give it a shot.

If you love writing but never in your life published every single day, this will snatch the fun away from it. If you don’t, you are most welcome to write two articles a day.

Publishing every day made me unhappy

I was motivated and determined to write smoothly for the first 30 days. If I see any changes in my earnings or engagement, I will continue the process of writing, I thought.

How much I invested myself in writing every day? Let me tell you. I am not a morning person. Getting up early and thinking, what to write is not my cup of tea. However, I got up at 5 am and started crafting my stories. I used to spend two hours on writing and the same for editing.

I wrote for 07 days straight. That was it. But I have never been so frustrated in my life. .

I was not pitching my drafts to top publications as they take several days to revert. So, I self-published all my stories

I observed that neither they were getting noticed nor the quality of my writing improved. Moreover, with writing and publishing every day, I lost my fun of crafting stories. I acted like a businessman who has to bring tons of money home by publishing consistent articles.

If my day one and day seven articles are compared, the last one would be crap.

Topics? topics? topics?

To publish daily, you need a plethora of ideas on your board for a week in advance. For the first 07 days, I have the ideas. But for the next week, I couldn’t find one, even if it is on my screen.

Why? Have I gone insane? Yes.

As soon as I get up from my comforting bed, I activated my cruel mind that always loves to talk about “what to write next?”

I generally like to write about topics I have experienced myself or know for a long time. Publishing every day forced me to write about weak and subtle topics with poor quality. I was just trying to complete the article anyway, not focusing on its quality.

Maybe it’s about quantity over quality on Medium, But as a writer, it’s a poison to your work. Where will you go with poor quality content but 30 articles a month?

I like to take things slowly, experience them, and write about them in my own words. I am happy if it takes time.

9–5 job with no salary

For me, writing has become a job. Wake up early, open your laptop, and start typing, even if it means you will be getting $0.5 for it. Yeah, most of my stories earn this much only.

For those seven days, I felt like I am performing a job rather than a side hustle. A job you don’t like and try to skip through it to end your day.

To be honest, I was highly influenced by top writers on the platform. They publish daily, and people thoroughly read their work. But I don’t have an audience as big as them.

Even if I put all my effort into writing every day, is there any guarantee people will read my work? Especially the work that is losing its quality over time? No, people will start hating me and will never click on my headlines again.

Writing every day for seven days is nothing less than child labor. Yes, a new writer’s consistency is key. You have to show up daily. I do show up every day and read fellow writer’s work.

There is no hard and fast rule that writing every day will guarantee your success. It’s about your quality and trust in your work, and that definitely doesn’t come overnight.

My mental health was ruined

I wrote stories about self-improvement and mental health, and this time both of them were severely injured because of writing daily.

The torture on my writing did not end up with self-publishing, but it ruined my entire day. As soon as I finish one of my blog posts, my mind started dropping notifications to start working on another. It sucks

I missed my spare time where I talk to myself, have a healthy conversation with my family and friends, and go out to play a sport to refresh my mind to come back home and write more smoothly.

However, publishing every day did not provide me the opportunity to go out and have a ‘me-time.’ This is why I got frustrated to a level where I started crying.

Writing every day will not only deteriorate your articles but will hamper your mental health as well. You won’t be able to focus on different things other than writing.

I have my online classes, Quora answers, LinkedIn posts that were all declining in quality because of my frustration due to publishing daily.

Final thoughts

Maybe writing every day will lead you to success in your life, but if it comes at the cost of mental health, I am happy to be unsuccessful and defeated.

Every writer is different in his/her thoughts and way of putting words on a blank white surface. You can make a difference by writing consistently with quality articles, but not everyone has that flexibility.

I am not going to rush and deteriorate my writing skills anymore. So, I have determined to focus more on the quality of my writings — not the quantity.

Thank you for reading.

If you are interested to read more of my writings, you may read the following one published in The Masterpiece.