Avoid These 7 Mistakes as an Online Writer

And save two years of wasted effort

Aniket Saraf
6 min readJul 20, 2023
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

Call me ignorant, childish, or crazy, but I left my career as a civil engineer and started afresh as a blogger at 24.

Yes, blogger.

Blogging can make a person financially free. I took that sentence seriously and began writing online.

New to the digital world, I thought — ‘if so many people say blogging equals financial freedom, they must be true.’

Yes, they might be.

But the time when I was sold this dream was 2021. Blogs were dead long back. And I was unaware of the new rising industry that killed blogging.

Am I too late? Am I a fool? How I didn’t sense that when it was all in front of me all the time? I found myself in deep trouble. I was ashamed of a costly mistake I made — I started a blog in the age of the Creator Economy.

Lesson 1 — If you want to start anything online, spend 1–2 months in rigorous reading. Don’t be in a hurry to buy costly dying subscriptions. First — study platforms, read reports, follow top people, and note the trends.

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Aniket Saraf

Writer in Tech, Startups, Entrepreneurship, & Personal Development. Digital Creator | Ghostwriter | Copywriter | Content Marketer