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Why I Keep Writing for Only $20 a Month
There’s a difference between those of us on Medium who are writing for profit versus those of us who are only making a few bucks a month
A decade ago, writing became something that I really began pouring my heart and soul into. I used writing as a vessel for expressing my emotions and documenting my experiences as a twenty-something year-old living in New York City.
I started a Wordpress blog for fun, with no real focus or genre around the topics that I was writing about. My blog posts were merely the ramblings of a lost millennial who was still trying to find her purpose in life — and to be honest, not much has changed.
Given the substantial amount of student loan debt I had accrued from my four years as an undergrad, I had never considered writing to ever become a means of any real source of income (not for me, at least). After all, I had neither the experience nor the degree to show for it.
Regardless, I still wanted to write.
And so, writing continued to be a hobby for me — a leisurely activity that I took up whenever I found the spare time after the long work day or whenever I had something really pressing on my mind that I needed to rant about.
