Common Fuck-Ups New Medium Writers Make

Philip Ogley
4 min readApr 23, 2022
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So you’re not getting any views, no one responds, no one claps, no one cares. You’ve made $0.02 in three years, and the only follower is your mum.

What are you doing wrong?

Probably everything.

Mistake # 1 — Your articles are insanely boring!

Oh God, give me a fucking break. Talk about cliché!

It gets worse.

In August 2014, I gave up my job teaching English in Lyon to house-sit a farm in Vienne and write a novel. I wasn’t particularly looking for the literary good life. I just wanted a break from the city.

Think I might shoot myself. Another writer writing about writing.

Mistake #2 — Writing about writing

No one cares about your writing life. No one cares if you wake up early every morning to write while the sun rises over a small wood in front of your house.

People don’t want to know how you write. They want to read what you write.

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