Inspirational Blogging Wealth Articles Can Ruin New Writers

Set realistic financial expectations to have a long, successful blogging career.

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You love words. You have a knack for putting them in a certain special order to express ideas and build strong narratives. You can harness this superpower to make millions. From the beach, from the bar, you can earn passive income even if you end up spending a weekend in a holding cell. You could be a successful blogger, just commit to it.

I can’t even make it through half a scroll without coming across these fantastical, inspirational articles about making millions from blogging. They are everywhere, selling the dream of liberation from a capitalist society through the typed word. Hocking the fantasy that we can chuck the oppressive 9-to-5 schedule in favor of a life driven by the whimsy of our word muses (and the muse prefers the hours of 10–11 a.m. and 2–3 a.m.). Bartering our clicks for an empty promise of success by honoring the written word with vague guidance like, don’t give up.

I’m sick of it.

These articles are cheesy, and yet we keep reading them. Ultimately, our clicks are the engine that keeps this machine of empty, unhelpful content running.