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What Makes My Articles Unique? Part 3: Don’t Expect to Earn a Living from Writing
Earnings from technical blogging, for most bloggers, are small. Yet, I have published ~500 quality articles over the past 3.5 years.
Every writer’s blog is unique in its own way unless it is plagiarised. I’m simply highlighting my unique aspects.
Part 1: Originally for my daughter and myself
Part 2: Not striving to be a Techfluencer
Part 3: Don’t Expect to Earn a Living from Writing
Part 4: From rare combinations of experience, hands-on experience in various roles (coming soon)
Part 5: Being Direct and unafraid to say what others won’t, and most of my predictions are later proven correct, (coming soon)
Part 6: Responding to Public Requests for Assistance on E2E Test Automation (coming soon)
Nearly all my articles are behind the Medium Paywall, i.e., only paid Medium Members (~$5/month, currently on special $4) can read them (please note, a paid Medium member can read articles from all authors). Naturally, people would think, “Zhimin, you are trying to make good money from your articles.” You can find my answer in this article, and you’ll likely gain a better understanding of earnings from writing in technical fields on Medium.
For readers wondering, “Zhimin, why don’t you make your articles free to the public?”, please stay tuned for Part 6.
Firstly, the odds of earning a significant income from writing are low. For technical articles, the odds are much lower.
Having said that, there are elite bloggers who earn a good income on a public platform. These are edge cases.
“1% of authors, who account for nearly a third of all UK book sales” — source
As an author of 12 technical eBooks, I was well aware that earning good money from technical blogs is nearly impossible before blogging. My main topics, such as End-to-End Test Automation and Continuous Testing, are still currently considered “cold fields” in software…
