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This Writer’s Journey
How Pruning Gave Me a Better View of Reading Material
I Now Have Five Bars and the Signal Is Green
In the Beginning
As I started my writing journey, reading all the how to increase followings, make $10,000 per month writing, I want to be your coach for $100 per hour articles, both distracted and took me off course.
They all sounded great, and I too wanted to be equally successful as they claimed to be, and they were more than willing to help me at a cost.
One of their most common advice was to follow fifty to one hundred people every day. Even new writers were echoing the same advice. After doing this for some time, I too gained followers. Then, just for giggles, I would look at the amount of people these people were following and found that they were in the group of “Do as I say not as I do.” This group is so large that someone wrote a book about it. The list of people in that book is interesting and well known.
I spent money on other writers’ training, purchased their books, and engaged some in editing my articles. The articles became more reflective of their thoughts than mine. I did not find value in the training or books.
