5 Reasons Writers Suffer: Behind the Scenes of Every Great Writer

Ranjan Mishra
5 min readSep 5, 2023

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Not getting views,

People not reading my stuff,

Not getting engagement,

But in less than 30 days I get 170,000 content views.

I am also in your shoes when I am thinking about why.

WHY people don’t like my writing, and what successful writers do because of which people read them but don’t read me.

Currently, I spend more than 12 to 14 hours reading, writing, and observing other people’s work, and taking courses.

I am going to sum up all the learning that I learned in 5 steps.

You don’t need to wander for the best resource that help you to become a successful writer, you are reading that best resource right NOW!

5 Steps: The Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Writer’s Block

The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Writer

Clear all Red Traffic of Your Mind: FIRST

I suffer a lot because of this single thing.

If you also going to start a writing journey you will going to suffer.

Just take a pen and paper and sit with yourself in a silent environment.

Try to answer every single question that comes to your mind.

If you don’t want to do this exercise believe me you’re going to waste starting 5 to 6 months easily, If anybody observes my LinkedIn account every week my title change, ghostwriter, content writer, start-up stories writing, personal development writing, and tomorrow I also going to change.

This all thing happens because my WHY is not clear, I don’t have clarity on what I want to do, or why I am doing this.

So before going to jump in writing stuff always introspect yourself.

Clear your why first otherwise you are going to suffer a lot in the future.

Are you fighting with yourself?

Ignoring your competitor: SECOND

Just think you also going to serve those customers/clients/audiences whom your competitor is serving.

Right, so why are you not analyzing your competitor?

Finding their weak point and making your strong point

In starting When I started I literally ignored competitors.

Because I think I don’t have a competitor in my field, I only need to work on myself and I will get views and customers.

So why do I see toward competitors but I am wrong? Please don’t do this(see your competitor).

Observe your competition's writing style And if it’s working for him it’ll work for you too.

There is some intention behind every single move of your competition, that you need to observe.

People’s Behaviors Changing see What is Current Now: THIRD

Media agencies invest millions of dollars to see how to get people’s attention, and how to format content so that people give their time.

Currently, one linear text content doing very well because people love scrolling subconsciously you also.

So you need to design your content according to people’s needs, this point I learned from a paid course and you get free for this thing you can follow.

See what type of content getting more engagement in the market and then align your writing with it.

The market decides most of the time what they need.

You talking to many people

Agree with this Point Too Late: FOURTH

Actually, when I write I just want people more people to read my content.

If they like they will share, comment like but I never acted like him, living in delusion.

I never make content for anyone even though I was sitting and writing content all day.

Because I want mass audience,

I want more and more people to read me.

But nobody loves my content why?

Because I targeted everyone,

You need to be specific with your content If you are serious about the content creation game.

Before starting to write an article or content you need to think about who will benefit from the article, think about that person’s problem, write down notes, and then start writing your article or content.

Since I’ve been doing this I started getting results believe me if you have only 1000 loyal followers they will going to make you famous but you need to target those 1000.

The best thing you can do is first write the title and then start writing the rest of the content.

People are Selfish, So you also need to be Selfish: FIFTH

Whatever value you give by your writing or content, believe me, people take those values and go home.

They don’t care about you, This is harsh but the truth,

Even you also do with other creator’s content.

This is not bad if you also become selfish and ask what you deserve.

Always your writing or content include CTA(Call-To-Action) means reader after completing your pieces of content, first ask yourself what you want from your work.

If I give my example on Quora I want an upvote so I ask for an upvote, on medium I want followers so I ask for them, on LinkedIn I want comments so I ask for them.

You need to be a selfish person If you are in the online world, don’t cheat anyone but also ask those things that people can give.

Give people a Call to Action end of every piece of content(but not multiple).

You look so confused

🎉BONUS: Your Thought has a Million Impressions Don’t Mix

Especially if you are on the creator side whenever you make a video or write something during that time you get multiple thoughts.

What you do, is mix those ideas/thoughts on a single piece of content, and the result is if any reader reads it will be confused.

And you do not get benefits from your work.

So what I do is if I write something and in between any thoughts come I write down on my notepad and I make separate content on that idea or thought.

And one thing don’t even let the thoughts that are coming, in the online world you don’t know which thing will go viral.

Conclusion:

Be selfish because people are also selfish.

Don’t feel embarrassed in asking what you deserve.

In the online world people’s behavior changes every time so see what trend currently running in the market.

Separate things and make separate content because every thought can have a million impressions before starting to do an exercise with pen and paper that I told you in the first step

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