RE: What It Feels Like To Be A Struggling Middle-Aged Author With No Plan B
I think you’re an excellent writer. You’re getting readership, which is wonderful, but there are a few methods to incite engagement from readers, one is formatting. If you look at mainstream media articles certain quotes or blocks of text that they want to stand out are in a larger font. This draws the reader’s attention and also breaks up long posts so their brain processes them in manageable chucks instead of one long post. Also you can experiment with questions in your posts like, “What do you think about such-and-such?” or “Tell me how you feel about this?”, this makes the post seem more conversational to the reader, it will prompt more engagement in the form of replies. To prompt shares you must write with honest, raw emotion, write from your soul, unfiltered. This takes guts. You know it's a good post if you feel uneasy before you hit "post". This always gets reads, comments, and shares, this is how posts go viral. I hope that helps!
Thank you so much for taking the time @ericvancewalton ! Truly appreciated.
You're welcome! I hope it helped in some way.