Don’t Kill a Writer’s Success: Stay for Just 30 Seconds to Make a Real Impact"
Why You’re Hurting Writers?
As a writer, keeping your readers engaged is not an easy task, especially if you have to write for websites, blogs, forums, and the like. The key challenge today is how you can immediately capture and retain a reader’s attention. For writers on writing-centric sites such as Medium, Wattpad, and personal blogging sites, the level of engagement, especially the read ratios defined by how deeply the readers get into content, defines success. Sadly, these ratios can change when the readers are just too busy to give the writer their attention or literally swipe away.
Especially most people in Medium that only want to draw the writers attention to their profile for engagement without properly reading the post before commenting. It is very bad, and those kinds of attitudes need to be stopped. We should learn to give meaningful engagement and a good read ratio to the writer. This is how we, as readers, can assist just by paying attention for 30 seconds at most.
Quality Over Quantity
In the world of information overload, low-quality contents and hasty articles dominate, while the great content can easily get lost. Following such rules as spending more than 30 seconds on each article, writers will be able to write meaningful and valuable content rather than focusing on the number of views.
Respect for Creativity
Writing is not an easy process, as it requires time, energy, and that tiny spark of inspiration. Giving 30 seconds of your read’ time is a sign of respect and acknowledgment of how much effort writers invest to write their stories or opinions.
Encouraging Creativity
As writers, we all crave to see those comments and responses in our comment section. Commenting and sticking to a piece for at least 30 seconds helps writers get appreciation that will prompt them to continue doing their best and create more and more articles.
Building Relationships
Writing is not merely about putting down the chalk or the pencil and coming up with some lines on a piece of paper, or on a screen if I must add—it is an exchange, or rather, a dialogue, between the writer and the reader. If you actually spend time reading an article or a story, you are actually relating to the writer of the piece and acknowledging their point of view. This, in turn, leads to a broader and more focused flow of ideas.
Cultivating Empathy
Each piece of writing that an individual writes is bound to contain the writer’s experience, view, or even the mood at the time of writing. Taking just a few minutes in the writer’s article can assist with developing empathy, opening your eyes to different solutions you might not have imagined before.
In conclusion, based on the experience gained from the work and the findings, the reader has the ability to promote the works of writers. By committing ourselves to’stay engaged’ and spending 30 seconds of our time, we not only contribute to increasing their read ratios, but we also appreciate their efforts, talents, time spent writing the work, and hard work. To say it in other words, let’s try to become better readers who appreciate the power of the written word.
