The day my writing finally started to get attention

For years, nothing I wrote landed.

I churned out post after post, convinced that at some point all this tapping would bear fruit.

I wrote hundreds of articles that were met with silence.

Some with a few pity likes here and there, the odd crumb of acknowledgement, but nothing that felt truly rewarding.

I was close to giving up, but there was this nagging sense that I hadn’t figured out that special ingredient yet.

I knew other people were doing it. I knew it was possible to write something that connected.

Then, one November afternoon, I got some clarity.

I sat down to write and, for the first time, I stopped trying to ‘produce content’ and started writing like a person who just wanted to talk.

• Not a ‘creator.’

• Not a ‘brand.’

• Not an expert spouting polished turd.

I just showed up like I cared.

I stopped worrying about looking clever, and I stopped pretending I had all the answers.

Instead, I let myself feel things. I let the words carry frustration, joy, doubt, clarity, and longing.

And that piece took off, gaining tens of thousands of views within days on Medium.

I realised that people don’t follow ‘content.’ They follow humans. They want to know there’s a pulse on the other side of the screen.

That’s when writing became something else entirely for me. It stopped draining me because it finally gave something back.

And most of what I got back wasn’t even in the increased engagement, but in what it felt like to write something with feeling.

When your work has no soul, you will burn out.

But when you write as yourself, without overly relying on AI machines, and you write like an actual person, the energy flows back.

That’s what keeps me going.

It’s what keeps me alive and happy.

That’s why I still play this game.

If you’ve been pouring your energy into writing and it still feels like you’re shouting into the void, Online Writing Alchemy is where I share the exact process that helped me tighten up my ideas into writing people loved.

The 16 secrets are inside ⮕

Alex ‘writer boy‘ Mathers