7 Steps to Becoming a Successful Online Writer

As a writer, your first and probably most crucial decision is to determine how you will assess success.

How will you ever know if you're successful if you don't know what success means to you? This may appear to be a straightforward question, but many writers become tangled up in knots attempting to choose between artistic integrity, financial gain, freedom of speech, and a variety of other factors.

In a moment, I'll tell you what I think, but first, let's go over some of the key concerns that will help you become a successful online writer.

1. Make yourself your best buddy.

Unless you're part of a script or joke writing duo, writing is a solo endeavor.

Because you'll be spending the majority of your writing time with your keyboard and screen, you might as well learn to love them. I enjoy hearing my fingers clatter on my keyboard because it energizes me and makes me feel accomplished. I enjoy watching the words appear on the screen as well. Reading back what I've written out loud and correcting any sentences that don't sound right gives me a lot of joy.

It's like talking to a mentor or a coach when you make friends with your mind and like listening to and encouraging the talks that take place there. I make friends with the passing ideas and thoughts that pass through my mind late at night or when walking my dogs. These concepts and thoughts provide a constant source of joy, inspiration, and knowledge.

2. Visualize it in your mind's eye.

The way you imagine yourself in your mind's eye has a big impact on how motivated you are to write.

To put it another way, if you consider yourself a scientist, you will want to play with science. Your primary consideration will not be writing. If, on the other hand, you see yourself as a science writer, you will not only want to write about the subject, but you will also be curious enough to conduct a study in order to acquire new knowledge and perspectives to enrich your work.

Dream big; your self-image has a huge role in motivating you to spend hours in front of the computer. As you write, imagine your audience laughing, learning, and falling in love with your stories.

Writing success is determined by your relationship with your audience.

3. Be enamored with your subject.

Consider how many famous artists have muses.

The beauty, presence, and company of muses inspire artists to paint or sculpt. They frequently arouse enthusiasm.

This may seem like common sense, but you'd be surprised how many aspiring authors try to write about what they think they should write about rather than what they're enthusiastic about.

Write about dogs if you adore them and know everything there is to know about them. Or, if you travel frequently and enjoy writing about it, follow Anne Bonfert's lead and write intriguing and vibrant essays about all facets of her globetrotting existence. Or, like Sara Burdick, who traveled from Kentucky to Colombia through Argentina and changed her career along the way, you may simply write about what you do in your life.

It doesn't matter if you're not as daring as Anne or Sara; what matters is your particular knowledge and the passion with which you inspire your reader. The more passionate you are about what you write about, the more readers will follow your lead. It's incredible how emotion draws readers into stories.

Writing is like religion in that you must have faith in your ability to write in an engaging, educational, and fascinating manner.

4. Be curious about everything I believe that the best source of inspiration for a writer is curiosity.

Good writers are always on the lookout for new ways to convey themselves. They're always keen to learn more about the topics they write about. They want to know what their readers think about their writing and what they find intriguing or pleasurable about it.

Curiosity drives a writer to learn and learn some more, as well as to research and research some more. Continuous learning, paired with hard labor, is how a writer cultivates the growth mentality that is necessary for success in any endeavor.

5. Go for broke.

Have you ever seen a man digging a hole with a spade?

It is a fact that in order to achieve anything, you must work hard. Words don't magically appear on the page because you wish to be a writer. They don't get into sight by thinking about what to write about or how to write it. You should use your keyboard to keep your fingers busy.

6. Use "creative" language when speaking to oneself.

Good writers are always on the lookout for new, exciting, and unique methods to express themselves.

I find that talking to myself while I'm writing is vital. This is how I look for new and intriguing ways to interact with my readers. These internal monologues serve as a constant reminder to myself not to be dull, and to find a stimulus that will motivate my reader to step up their game.

"Creative Conversations" is a game that you will never totally win, but if you don't play it, you risk confining your readers to a monotonous existence that will eventually bore you both.

7. Give money a purpose

As I typed this subheading, I could almost sense your resistance.

However, consider this: if you don't make any money, you'll have to find other means to pay your bills. You can't write if you're doing other things, and you're also wasting writing time and energy. It's unavoidable that your writing will have to bring in the bacon in the long run. So you should start keeping track of how much money you're making right now.

I'm not suggesting that you go out to write solely stories that will bring you money, but I do believe that you should write in such a way that your words will be translated into bucks. My straightforward perspective is that the more money I make from writing, the more time and energy I have to write. It's a positive feedback loop.

Personally, I keep a tight check on my writing income because it is what allows me to write.

I wish you the best of luck in your literary career.