Online Writing: Thoughts to Ponder
A writer’s thoughts matter a lot in achieving success in the world of online writing.
Being a writer has its joys, pains, agonies, worries and expectations. While writing my articles I couldn’t help but these thoughts crossed my mind and I believe I share the same thoughts and feelings with other online writers.
Thoughts that Keep Me Going:
- I get up in the middle of the night and jot down something lest it flies away and gone forever.
- I am inspired (I don’t know where is that coming. Is it my subconscious?) and
- I write faster than usual.
- I get perked up even with a few comments on my articles.
- I am compelled to write or upload a photo each day.
- I felt a nudge to write more each day.
Thoughts That Discourage
- I feel down and I can’t even write a single word.
- I stare up at the ceiling but apparently ideas are either lacking or not so exciting to write about.
- I thought I have exhausted all the topics that need to be written.
- I have that feeling that my article is not well-liked because of low readability.
- I thought I have written a very good article but got a few reads.
- I thought the picture I uploaded is great, I got 250 views and nobody bothered to check the “I Like It” tab.
- I could have earned more had I done my other pending work (opportunity cost).
Just Thoughts
- Do I need to place a picture in my article?
- I should make comments on other members articles to let them know I exist and hoping they’d reciprocate and see my work.
- I wished the editor approve my articles right away.
- I wished there are a lot of advertisers in my page.
- I wished my writing is more eye catching and more effective.
- I ponder on various ways to increase readability of my articles.
- I wonder why some online authors easily get them to the hot users list and due to curiosity read their articles (that adds more views and reads).
- I wonder if it matters sharing my articles to other social networking sites like Digg, Reddit, Technorati, Facebook, Myspace, etc. aside from Stumble Upon which I’m sure increases my articles’ readability. And I ask myself “Do I need to have a new user name and password here?
- Shall I stop writing at some point?
- Will this article matter at all?
In conclusion, writing has its ups and downs, pains and agonies, sacrifices and rewards; ultimately hoping that one day all these efforts will finally pay, like the proverbial “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow.
Nevertheless, writing is a way of life. Expressing one’s self and getting heard by others is incomparable to any preoccupation in the world.
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May 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Very true.
Wolfe
May 10th, 2008 at 3:39 am
very nice and sincere, well
that’s life amongst online writers
May 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
So true.
I liked this point most “I could have earned more had I done my other pending work (opportunity cost).”
May 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Thanks Wolfe, Nobert and Rana. I learned that writing can help us discover ourselves. It reveals who we really are.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Interesting thoughts you have written down here, some of these go through my mind also on a daily basis also.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
You have captured many of the thoughts we all have held like a common thread that unites us.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:16 am
You’re lines are exactly what haunt my mind everyday. Thanks for writing it.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Good points that you have wrote about and I too have experienced some if not all of them at one time or another.
I once was concerned with trying to impress everyone who read my articles, but not everyone is going to like everything or every writer that writes about a subject. I do not consider myself a very good writer, but I do understand the importance of good marketing. And, yes, marketing to most of the social networks you have mentioned is a good thing to do. I personally have stopped submitting to Digg, because I do not have a big social network of mutual friends there and some other Digg members whom have many hundreds or thousands of friends, if the choose to digg my work would help make those articles or sites more popular than I can do myself.
Right now, I have taken a few days off from writing, so to focus on other things I have going on online and in the real world. This helps me to prevent being burnt out from writing too much. Plus, I am planning the article line up for next month (July 2008) and I needed the time off.
I would add to your list, \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”Be patience, because it takes time to build a following for your work and to build marketing networks that are productive\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” and \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”Write for your audience online\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Writing is not something we do, it is something that we are.
A true writer could never stop writing, no matter how frustrating the process might be. It is deep within the soul, this drive to express oneself in written word.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I like this: “writing has its ups and downs, pains and agonies, sacrifices and rewards”…
If you read an article, it’s only one view, and it take hundreds, if not thousand views to make a stir. You have many good points in this article..
July 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Thanks my dear friends for your comments. Touching other people’s lives through writing is really a satisfying experience. I realized putting honest emotions into your writing can make a big difference.