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Found: The Secret To Writing!
Hint: It is no different than the secret to success in life
It is almost painful to see the sheer amount of stories that pop up in my feed on a daily basis about achieving success in writing for online platforms.
I am just like anyone else, after starting my side-hustle putting words on a screen it was easy to be convinced that untold riches are just one viral post away.
At the time of writing this, I don’t have stacks of cash lying around from my burgeoning writing career.
Yet after a little more than six months into putting myself and my writing out there, I feel successful as a writer.
The problem is, the classic American Dream has shifted from a mentality of working hard and achieving the benefits and rewards of that hard work over time to a viral mentality that has zero collective memory and requires immediate influxes of cash to define success.
Yes there are lots and lots of high profile writers on any platform that will talk about writing that one viral article and making thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Sure — and as a kid I begged my parents to enter the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes so that we could have a giant check with dozens of balloons attached delivered to our door.
