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Almost Everything I Write is Tanking Lately and I Don’t Know How to Keep Going
When the suckiness starts to undermine my confidence
My 30-Day Writing Challenge is going ok. Hey, I am doing the thing, it once seemed impossible (and still kind of does!).
And I get why my reads might be down with even the most loyal readers, who wants to or has the time to read my drivel every day? I myself have less time to read with all of this writing/publishing madness and feel like I am constantly playing catch up. Even my drafts that are 99% ready go somehow take at least an hour to clean up, I am physically incapable of publishing stuff that isn’t, to the best of my ability, grammatically correct and hopefully somewhat readable.
My views are noticeably up, but the reads are still depressingly flat. Is it simply that many of them are self-published? It’s hard to use most publications when I don’t know when something will go up.
It’s hard not to feel once more like I am floundering here. Here I am, doing the thing we are advised to do, write write write, feed the Medium hamster wheel algorithm, and it’s still crickets. Maybe I just suck at this?
I am starting to feel like I just can’t win here anymore. I was ok chugging along before, with the occasional surprise success (again, by my standards, I have…
