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Ignoring The Statistics
It’s easy to get sucked into keeping an eye on your statistics.
How many reads on Medium did I get today? How many new followers on Twitter? How many episodes and thumbs up did I receive on my Vella story?
Yesterday was a bad day for me. I got sucked in. All of my stats were dismal and almost nonexistent. How did that affect me?
I wanted to give up. I thought about it. Why keep spending so much time here on Medium when I’m making pennies a day? Why should I continue editing episodes just so that I can post them on Amazon and not have anyone read them? Maybe I should forget about Twitter and networking and marketing all together.
I needed to add an additional 1,000 words on my novella, yet I was so down I didn’t write a single word.
The fact is, for an unknown author, the stats are going to be dismal. There will be days when there is nothing to see, no movement forward. I knew this deep down, yet I allowed it to sink me for the day.
I can’t allow that to happen.
Today, things turned around a bit. Someone read all six episodes I had posted, and it wasn’t someone I knew or reached out to. It was someone from Twitter who had seen my tweet from a couple of days ago.