I Just Want to Write

When I joined Triond it was because I wanted to write. I quickly learned however, in this online world there is no such thing as just writing. At least not if you want to make money at it.

You need to learn how to promote your work, link other articles, upload pictures, and depending on the site a variety of other functions that while associated with writing are, at least for me, difficult and time consuming to learn.

I do these things because I must. Although sometimes I find myself resenting all the time I have been required to spend to learn how to do these things. For example, today I just spent the better part of two hours learning how to but my publishing number from my adsense account on a new site.

One would think in an ideal world, I should have been able to just copy and paste the number and that would be the end of it. It didn’t work that way. After I pasted the number I had a big blank space that on this site was a complete no no. I was told you had to remove the black space behind the number. To do this I was suppose to use the delete button. I did and nothing happening. The blank space remained intact. Next I was told to use the backspace. Still nothing.

Then I was told to remove my number, go clear off the site come back on and start the process all over. I did that and the blank space remained uneraseable. By this time, I was completely fed up but too stubborn to give up. So, more in anger and frustration than because I had any real hope of it working I simply moved the entire number to the end of the box leaving a blank space in front of my publishing number.

To my great surprise this worked and ads popped up on all my articles!

I should now be pleased and happy right? I am not. I am feeling very angry. Why could not they give simple directions telling you move the number to the end of the box, or better yet, simply make the box the right size to fit the publishing number? Why do they have to make things so complicated?

For two hours, I fought with what could have and should have been a simple task. But due to murky directions and poor explanations this task became an ordeal.

If I had been trying my hand at a new craft project and had run into problems of this nature I would have simply given up and thrown the entire project out and not wasted my time or energy trying to make sense out of these murky instructions.

Each of these new obstacles that I have overcome simply proves to me how deeply my desire to write is embedded in me. Each new hurdle I master will make my victory all the sweeter when I can at say, that I make my entire income from writing.

Even now when I look back on all the new things I have learned, all the problems I have solved, I am amazed at how far I have come.

Writing for me seems to be one incredible and never ending journey into the unknown.