On Writing Too Often About Making Money as a Writer

You are what you repeatedly write about

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I unfollowed a writer who is clearly making a lot by publishing often on this platform, but publishing the same content over and over. The headlines vary, the words vary, but the message is the same: write often, write good headlines, and strangely — don’t obsess about making money, don’t obsess about your stats.

For someone who advises not to obsess about these things, but is barely writing about anything else, I wonder who really is the one being obsessed here?

This is not the first time I unfollowed such a writer.

I follow writers who give good writing advice and provide insight into the industry. When writers who have written beautifully and intelligently on topics I cared about occasionally share information about their earnings and bare their writing process, I read them with appreciation and awe.

But when a writer I followed turned out to be somewhat incapable of writing about anything else except how to make money writing, I would wonder whether this writer has a very limited range. You may be a writing coach, a successful freelancer, professional or self-styled, but you can only say so much about the work itself. Where’s your riveting prose (or poetry) that is the true showcase of…