If you want a stable income from your writing, you need this one simple thing.
Where do you think you will be one year from now if you keep doing the same things you're doing right now?
This time next year, you could be free.
Not viral.
Not famous.
Not even rich yet.
But free. Because you finally wrote the thing that’s been clawing at your ribs for years.
Or…
You could still be:
Rearranging your desk instead of your sentences.
Reading productivity tips instead of publishing posts.
Telling yourself you’ll start “when finish that one course” (and promise yourself not to buy a new one).
Listen, writing doesn’t ask for perfection.
It asks for proof of life.
One paragraph at a time. One messy draft at a time. One post that makes people feel something.
That’s the work that leads to freedom.
Not overnight success. Not audience metrics. Not some genius-level brand strategy.
Just: write. Keep writing. Stay writing.
The rest catches up.
And you know what grants your freedom?
Not just writing.
But building an email list.
Same month last year, I was over the moon
Because I got all-time high earnings from M.: the amazing $769.81
Next month? Everything collapsed.
Then I made a decision that changed everything.
To start building a high-quality list of buyers.
But this time I changed my mindset.
I was a different Yana.
I knew writing was a long game. It will take me probably years to build that list and create a decent online business.
I went all in with that mindset.
With the expectation to grow slow.
Because that’s how people grow their email lists when they just start. When no one recommended. When no one shared.
Up until then I gained less than 100 subscribers for 4 months of daily writing. So I had my expectations that low: 1,200 subscribers per year.
Fast forward to today.
One year later, I have a total of 6,798 subscribers.
My earnings? More than 6 times higher than the same month last year. That’s a full-time income even for the US.
How?
Simple formula = wriring emails + selling subscritions, services & digital offers + affiliate
You noticed something?
No commissions. No earnings from platforms like M. yes, I write here daily again, but only to rank better on search engines and to gain some new subscribers.
I don’t depend on any algorithm anymore. I depend on the people on my list and their trust in me. I have full control.
So let me ask you something.
Where will you be same time next year?
Still planning.
Still hesitating.
Still procrastinating.
Or…
You could be free.
Free from the pressure to “have it all figured out.”
Free from the inner critic that says, Who the hell do you think you are?
Free from that blank page that keeps taunting you like it’s smarter than you.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: You don’t need to be an expert to write.
You need to start.
You need to show up.
You need to hit “publish” even when your hands are shaking and your sentences feel like spaghetti.
And you need to have offers that solve painful problems.
The idea that you need authority before you put words on a page?
That’s a myth designed to keep your brilliance in a box.
You don’t need a brand.
You don’t even need a master plan.
You need proof.
And the only way to get proof is to do the damn thing.
Walk that painful path. Prove you can make it. Then tell the world about how you did it, so everyone who’s still figuring out can follow.
You are not writing to teach from the mountaintop.
You’re writing to document the climb.
Because somewhere out there, someone is two steps behind you, drowning in the same doubt. Struggling with the same schedule. Fighting with the same imposter syndrome that’s sinking in your brain.
And they don’t want a guru.
They want a real human with dirt under their fingernails who says:
“I’m figuring this out too, and here’s what’s helping.”
That’s who people listen to.
That’s who people follow.
That’s who people trust.
Writing is not about expertise.
It’s about proof of work.
I had tons of experise when I started. But I chose to write about artificial intelligence: a field I had no clue about it.
Many others had much more expertise than me. Some of them challenged my ideas. But I’m still alive and standing.
It’s about speaking the truth so clearly, it cuts through the noise. Your truth.
And showing up so consistently, people start to believe you’ll show up for them too.
Stop aiming for perfection.
Start publishing for progress.
Progress: that’s what fuels your motivation.
You don’t need to write something viral.
You need to write something true.
You don’t need a fancy strategy. Yes, that helps.
But you need a commitment.
If you want a stable income from your writing, you need this one thing.
An email list.
A year from now, you’ll either be someone who wrote their way into freedom, or someone who waited for permission and never got it.
It’s your choice.
Stay Unplugged!
Yana
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