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How I Started Writing Again
And why I stopped
We tend to read a lot of writing advice on the internet, in the hopes that there will be some magic formula that will propel us into stardom.
Even though I wrote a blog for 10 years before I started taking Medium seriously, I decided to follow a lot of the writing advice that was posted. I mean, these guys had sort of made it on Medium. Apparently, they were making good money from it and I thought: why not?
I voraciously read all the articles, put the advice to good use and worked up a storm on my keyboard. Long story short, I hated it and I stopped writing for a while.
About three months ago, I decided to start writing seriously again on Substack. I knew it was going to be a challenge. Substack doesn’t exactly have the subscriber base that Medium does and you don’t get organic traffic, per se.
Inbox space is precious, and people don’t want to give it up unless you’re really giving them some value. The bar is set higher… much higher. It’s infinitely more difficult to get people to subscribe to a newsletter and I was starting at zero. But, I was starting on my own terms.
So, here’s what changed and why I’m back to my old self, loving the feeling of writing again.
