Newsletter #7 Being Patient Is the Best You Can Do
A lot has happened this past week, let's uncover them together.
Hi! On the 7th week of this newsletter, I’m exceptionally happy and excited to welcome all my new followers to my newsletter, it’s great to have you here!
Honestly, the past weeks have felt like I was writing to the void. I had close to no followers and pondered on whether spending my time on writing this newsletter was worth it.
Turns out, patience and perseverance pay off. Once again, I’m reminded by the power of being patient and consistent with your endeavors even if you don’t see tangible results at the beginning. Time will do it’s magic on you.
That’s why, if you’re close to give up on any of your goals because you cannot see immediate results, please be patient. Being patient always rewards you, take your time and trust the process. Change will happen slow and gradually.
Even if I’m thrilled about this outcome, these past few days have also been hard on me and for the people in my country.
Unfortunately, Turkey is facing major wildfires in various cities, and those wildfires harmed and continue harming the beautiful coast of the Mediterranean and Aegean, it’s forests, nature, animals, plants…
Where I call home is getting wrecked, and because our government didn’t provide the needed help and planned for this disaster, we had to ask help from other countries and United Nations.
Turkish people spread the word from their social media accounts. With the recognition we got, some countries offered us help with extra planes to extinguish the fire.
Wildfires still continue and we are heartbroken to see the beautiful spots of our country like this. We can only hope that this disaster will soon be over.
What I wrote this week
This week, I published 2 resources type of pieces for writers which can be very useful for both beginner and seasoned writers, and a psychology piece. Here they are:
10 Lesser-Known Magazines & Publications That Will Pay for Your Writing
I generally see the same kind of magazines being talked about on Medium and wanted to share with you the lesser talked ones.
This list of magazines and publications pay a good amount for your creative writing, and the list contains various type of magazines which publish non-fiction, fiction, poem, journalistic pieces, personal essays, travel stories, and so much more.
I’m sure you’ll find a magazine suitable for you to submit your work or pitch to on this list!
5 Free Gem Like Writer Databases Every Writer Needs to Know About
This list contains writer websites, databases that offer writers all the information and the services they’ll need in the course of their writing career.
You can find announcements and info such as calls to submissions from magazines, writer grants and competitions, literary events, news in the writing realm, writing tips, writing tools, and many more.
These are treasurous sources you need to tap into as a writer.
Watch Out for These 4 Cognitive Biases You Fall To Make Better Decisions
This was the latest one to be published this week, in fact, it was published yesterday. I love writing about psychological topics but realized I wrote a few of them lately.
When writing this piece, I was inspired by and got help from the book I’m reading, the Undoing Project, which discovers more the cognitive biases and heuristics I’m talking about in the article.
This article can be an eye opener on why you make your judgments and decisions the way you make, and how you can try to change your decision-making for the better by being aware of the errors in your ways.
This weeks highlights
This past week Medium announced they’ll do a writing competition for writers, with a total of $60,000 prize for the winner, and $10,000 for 4 respective winners of each category, and $100 each for 100 writers as a consolation prize.
I wasn’t 100% sure whether to attend the competition, as some drama about it circled around on Medium.
Some writers pledged to not attend to the competition and even criticised Medium about this announcement, whereas others thought it’s great that Medium is trying out new things and giving more attention to different stuff like personal essays.
For me, I think of entering the competition, because what do I have to lose? I was already thinking of attending writing competitions and searching for them. Medium coming up with this opportunity honestly made my job easier.
I love writing personal essays and think I need to write more of them and master at writing them. I think it’s a great opportunity for even only that reason.
It’s very very unlikely that I’ll win, but I’m not attending to win anyway, well at least first and foremost, I just want to give it a chance and hopefully see some improvement in my writing.
You can enter the competition for all the categories separately if you want, making 4 submissions at maximum, 1 submission for each category.
If you’re a writer on Medium or even just heard about this news right now, do you plan on attending the competition? If no, why not? Let me know in the comment section.
What I’m reading? I’m continuing to read the Undoing Project. I’m going chapter by chapter and learning about the details of many cognitive biases and psychological phenomena through the book, as well as the incredible story of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman’s lives.
If you are interested in either psychology, decision-making or behavioral economics, I strongly suggest you read this book, I’m sure you’ll love it and learn a bunch.
As soon as I finish this book, I’m planning on reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, which was resting for a long time on my bookshelf. Though it’s a bulkier book which will present a challenge for a slow reader like me. But I have to take this challenge.
This was it for this week! Hope you have an amazing rest of your week, take care my mail friend.