I Only Wrote Four Stories And Still Made A Hundred Bucks Last Month

No, your efforts aren’t wasted

Lea O
3 min readDec 3, 2022
Photo by 金 运 on Unsplash

Oh no, another writer talking about how much they earned last month.

There, I said it, so you don’t have to. I rarely write articles like this because a. they’re useless, and b. there are too many of them already. Also, because most articles like this are clickbait, at best.

Still, articles like this gave me hope and motivation when I first started writing online. This is precisely what I hope this article does for you.

The stats…

I’ve published 250 articles since October 2020. I’ve been a top writer 10 times. I’ve published in Better Marketing, Mind Cafe, PS I Love You, and Fearless She Wrote when those were still a thing. I can’t even remember the others.

None of that matters, though.

I never picked a niche because …multi-passionate, neurodivergent brain. Also because I think niche writing is outdated advice and the ultimate creativity killer. Take that for whatever you think it’s worth.

Today, I have almost 8K followers. I don’t email many stories to my subscribers, and I don’t mass advertise on social media. The world is full of enough opinions from everyone else and the noise they make to be…

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