The Gift of a Clap Back
Haters are going to hate
Picture yourself laying down the final touches for a piece you’re ready to submit and present for all 20 of your subscribers, and maybe even the whole world (you think, with your evil mastermind) — to see.
You type it up. Click the first photo you find on Unsplash. Because efficiency.
And off your baby goes to your drafts to await the final acknowledgement it’ll need from you or a publication to officially be published.
You now breathe a big sigh of ahhhhh and wait. But you don’t do any old kind of waiting. No. You wait, just a liii — ttle on the anxious side for your newest creation to be nurtured.
(You think)
Any views? Any fans? Hold on — 3 reads?!! VICTORRRYY!!
At this rate, your baby is sure to grow………except —
— except your baby hasn’t received any pats on its back. And the gains from those 3 reads? Pennies.
You realize your piece isn’t growing as well as you’d hoped, and you start to internalize the lack of engagement as the quality of your work/quality of your worth. You lament, as yet another written piece has failed to launch itself into the realm of financial freedom you eat, sleep, and drink.
