This Is The Hardest Part About Writing Online That Nobody Talks About

The struggles we writers go through turned out to be worse than I ever anticipated.

Money is a double-edged sword.

Back when I started writing online, it was because of a genuine desire to record down my thoughts so that the future me could look back on them and remember what life was like for me now.

I’d imagine myself 10 years from now, on a warm, sunny afternoon, resting indoors on a comfortable sofa, reading back through my old pieces of work, consisting of ambiguous amalgamations of words, paragraphs and cringy references, and wondering what the hell must’ve been going through my mind back then.

For me, I had always found it a worthwhile effort to document my thoughts and ideas because I know that one day I will suffer the same fate as those who have lived before me.

Death is the one thing that we all have in common and it’s why I want to pass on and transfer my own experiences and the lessons I’ve learnt to you guys so that they, in turn, can be passed on, again and again, from generation to generation, even when I’m long gone.

Ok, I didn’t mean for this to sound super deep and profound but it’s true. That is the real reason why made the decision to start writing.

Little did I know though, that in only a few months' time, this entire philosophy would change…

The reason — money.

Because I made writing online a way to express my thoughts and clear my mind up, I never really focused that much on quantity.

Sometimes, I’d sit down to write out of pure boredom. Other times, I’d do it because I felt inspired after watching some random motivational YouTube video.

I never sat down to write because I wanted to make money.

…Until my 10th month happened.

Prior to that month, I was earning around $2 to $8 a month on this platform and yeah, it was fun! I got a few views here and there and the responses from readers were all super positive.

I thought I was contributing something great to the world.

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