Writing is just like another skill, I need to exercise to master it. But sometimes I just don’t know what I need to write. So I just write something useless things. Right now, I also didn’t have an idea, of what I should write so I write another useless thing.
After writing a couple of paragraphs I read my emails, and I get a lot of notifications from Medium. One of my articles gets more readers and gets more claps. I’m not gonna lie, I’m happy about it.
Usually, my Medium account is just like a cemetery, no one comes here. If someone comes here it’s just for a couple of seconds, and then they are gone. Very quite.
I didn’t understand, why my articles can receive a lot of readers, to be honest, I don’t really enjoy that articles, and I write that fast, without thinking.
After I analyze I think I get more readers, because I write it in English, before that I only wrote an article in Bahasa Indonesia.
It is normal because everyone here speaks English, or everyone is eligible to read English articles, and only Indonesians read Indonesian language articles.
And after I analyze popular articles on Medium, there are two types of Medium popular articles; first current issues articles, and second self-improvement, or motivation articles.
Writing current issues — US current issues, or world problems — articles is like riding the wave, now you can write about Elon Musk and Twitter, or Luna crypto, and people will search and read that article because it’s a hot topic. Everyone fears missing out.
And how about self-improvement, or motivation articles? I don’t know why people like that kind of article. My hypothesis is people are clueless about their life nowadays. That’s why articles like “How to manage your time,” “How to say no to people,” “How to chill like a stoic philosopher,” and other “how-to” articles are popular right now.
I’m not smart enough to write about world current issues, I don’t have time to analyze a ton of articles, and a lot of writers are more capable to write about any current issues. But writing about self-improvement, motivation, or slice of life topic, is not really hard, because many of type that article is just common knowledge. You know that, but you just didn’t realize that knowledge.
Just like motivators or life coaches on TV, radio, podcast, book, or anywhere, they just tell you the same thing as your mom told you a long time ago. They are just good at delivering messages.
Successful rich motivators just told us to work hard, be consistent with our passion, and be patient. It’s the same thing that my mom told me a long time ago.
Also dating coaches, why do people need dating coaches who are just young people without experience. If people need advice about relationships just ask husband and wife who still married for more than 20 years. Their advice is more insightful than dating coaches without experience in a relationship.
I decided to still write in English, but mostly my articles are still Bahasa Indonesia. Because with good SEO, an article on Medium can be on the first page of Google. Medium is one of the best platforms for the Google index.
It’s not easy for me to write in English, maybe English languages it is easier than Spanish, Russian, Japanese, or Arabic languages, but it is still not my first language, and Bahasa Indonesia is still the easiest language. Bahasa Indonesia grammers are so simple.
Anyway thanks to Grammarly, which helps me write in English, at least Grammarly can help my grammar. It is not ads.
