Struggle of Online Article Writing

One of the most common afflictions of many who take up the profession of writing is the Death of a Writer. Not necessarily that they pass on but they work, work, and work in an attempt to earn some money or perhaps some recognition. Regardless eventually a few get through that glass ceiling and move onto other things. Other writers just become supremely frustrated and give up.

On the Internet, there are hundreds of thousands of would be writers out there. The pure amount of content put out each and every day is extremely astronomical. Writing pertaining to a variety of different subjects, with a variety of experience, expertise, and talent. The Internet can really be a web in the sense of writing, as you will be tangled in the mass amount of writing. 

Less than one percent of those authors may in fact achieve any number of notable success. Often times a writer can pour their heart and soul into an article. They can do research, while adding their own expertise and ideas, to form about the closest thing to the perfect article that a reader would imagine. It would be a captivating read. Providing of course many people read it.

There will be a few hits here and there for the hard work, and in the case of more fortunate writers, a few hundred hits. In the end, it nowhere comes near the quality of return that the writer will have right on the investment of their time. A few disappointments like this and only the most stubborn and most patient writers have gone on.

Most writers have given up.

That is really the death of a writer.

It happens with Joe Blogger, it happens with professional writers as well to an extent. Professional writers are at the mercy of a publishing company most of the time. With a publishing company who tears apart the heart and soul of the writer's work of art. Before they reassemble it. While some offer a bit more creative freedom, for many publishers, their writers are mere tools to promote some higher agenda.

On the Internet, you do have a lot of freedom. Other than the potentially illegal and socially unacceptable, you can write about any kind of topic. For better or for worse, your writing will be what you intend to be. You have the freedom to write about what you want to, for better or for worse.

Yet writing is something that only less than one percent of writers on the Internet will ever completely achieve. Eventually writers realize that the talent and the passion they once have is crushed. They just move beyond.

Writing is if nothing else a thankless profession. And those eyeballs on the Internet are the most critical audience. Of course, gaining any kind of audience is half the battle for the article writer on the Internet. Keeping the audience is the the other half and the half which is lost more often than not.

Writers will be born every day. Those who go with fresh perspectives and many ideas. While old war horses in the world of writing get put to bed every day, as the stubborn continue to slog on, determined to succeed by sheer force of will.

It is a long and winding road.