Obstacles you'll face as a new web or non-web content writer.

When it comes to writing – it's all about the audience, because the audience gets you paid.

As today there are more than 152+ million blogs online according to Google, I bet there are like 300 million blogs, maybe more. There are more than million posts updates every day – so chances of writing something really exceptional are pretty slim, especially when you're new to writing. Best writers of the world hang out at medium, because medium.com pays for high quality content and for claps that content receives. Some people earn 600+ dollars per article, paid out through stripe.

Since writing is very competitive. It's really hard to make money with it and attract an audience, if you're not on steemit, even if you're on steemit and have no audience – your posts will earn you just couple of cents, if you won't invest into an upvote bot.

When you go out there and write shit for people – your reputation and knowledge are at stake. The worst thing though that can happen is – nobody will read your articles.

There are many pseudo-writers out there who write some nonsense poems and try to make it big.

You have to remember that all writers aren't equal – some get the attention from the beginning while others struggle for years until their genius is recognized. For example: Charles Bukowski – it took more than ten years to recognized. Some authors write for 40 years and get no recognition and some write until their death and die unrecognized and some, if they're lucky, get recognized after death.

My best advice for an aspiring writer – don't do it! You won't earn much, unless you're one of those 1% who can make it. Other 99% earn shit.

That said, here's the obstacles:

1. Your writing has to mature and it takes a few years of writing until your text becomes decent. Words have to flow, you know.
2. Most of the time you will be disappointed by your work. And that's a good thing because you gain experience as a writer.
3. Nobody's going to read you unless you build your fame yourself.
4. You have to market your stuff in order for people to see it. If you're going to write your blog and leave it for search engines and people to discover you – your chances are like 1 out of 1000.
5. Your first book will be piece of shit no matter how much experience you have in life. To be a writer, you have to write 1 000 000 words and then delete them, only then you're a writer with experience.
6. You have to be born a writer, because real writer is like superb attracted to this kind of stuff. They write because they enjoy writing, we write not for the monetary benefit, but everybody of us wants to earn from it and become the next Steven King.
7. Some people enjoy reading and some do not. Typical person reads a book a year, or maybe even less. Most of them take it from the library and don't buy them. So your chances are slim while trying to sell a book. And book on kindle costs like 0.99 cents and you earn somewhat 0.33 cents per sale and those are GOOD books, not garbage. If you'll write garbage – nobody will read it, even if you'll write a masterpiece not everybody's going to read it.
8. This is the main obstacle – your reputation and your audience work hand in hand. If you're a dumb fuck – nobody's going to read you anyway. If people will see that you write shit, they won't come back, ever. So your best bet is to write GOOD stuff and gain reputation, with reputation and expertise comes the audience, if you market well.

I know there are guys like me, who know how to write, but don't know how to do anything else.

And some people are considering writing. Your best bet is to write a diary it can be online for offline – it doesn't matter. People who tell you that writing by hand is more valuable than writing with computer are telling you nonsense. Nobody reads handwritten content. Digital content is the standard of web space. You just publish a post on your blog and make it available to the whole world to read. But due to information explosion – nobody can find your stuff. And that's a big problem. There's so much information out there

I know that writers write – they don't read articles on how to write, if you're naturally not attracted to writing, your best bet is not to write. Because after years and years of effort you won't get anything out of it, unless you're lucky and successful and being it is like super hard.

You can write the best post in your life, but the market decides what's good and what's not that good, but in the end everything is subjective.

GL