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From Whining to Winning
or How to Monetize Your Tears
Everyone is claiming to be a writing coach these days. Anyone with as little as a thousand followers has a mailing list that you must subscribe to if you want to receive exclusive tips on how to improve your writing. You reluctantly subscribe to these lists, and half of them seem to be the same paraphrased text — carefully deconstructed and glued back together letter by letter to appear brand new. You feel cheated but continue skimming through that ‘copy of a copy of a copy,’ hoping to find the Holy Grail that’ll turn you into an award-winning writer. I am not complaining. I am 100% positive I’ll be creating my mailing list and giving out tips like I was the one that came up with them as soon as I get enough people to care about the nonsense I write.
The daily digest suggests posts that have even more tips on how to get more views, how to get more claps, how to earn an X amount of money from just one article and retire. We hungrily scroll through those posts one after another after another. We all want a simple trick to gain a following overnight and our articles to go viral no matter who we are. Be it for the money, vanity, or an intense need to share our knowledge. But mainly for the money.
Personally, the best advice I dissected from those lists was to suffer and to write every day. Suffer more and…
