5 Harsh Truths About Being an Online Writer

These harsh truths came from over a decade of writing on the internet.

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I opened my first serious blog on the internet in 2011. That was Alive2Play which I wrote about in the past. After that idea dissolved, I settled for less and opened a personal blog where I won’t have a team to disappoint.

In February 2019, I joined Medium and started my writing journey on a platform where people come to read and not just stumble upon your article on a google search.

I learned a lot during the last decade. Some of those lessons were hard, and up until very recently, life reminded me that I still couldn’t internalize them. So I decided to write about them instead. That way, I might transfer those truths to young writers while also facing them myself.

Let’s begin.

No One Knows You Exist

Let’s face it. You’re not Ariana Grande, who tweets ‘love you’ and gets half a million likes.