I appreciate your response. I was a print journalist for 30 years. My final job was editor of a daily paper. Writing opinion columns and editorials was always one of my favorite parts of my job. Since being laid off in 2015, I’ve written nearly anything you can image. I take every bit of freelance work I can get (SEO, blogs, proofing, you name it). I wrote for an online magazine (and still do occasionally). I have written a stack of genre novels which I thought would by now being paying off, but sales are disappointing. I write and email out a weekly newsletter to promote my genre novels. And now I’m taking another crack at Medium. My intention is to post a piece daily for three months and evaluate. I also wrote a non-genre novel I intend to publish under my own name, The Trailer Park Rules — and one of its central points is that luck is a big part of success. A typical day for me is a few hours of paid freelance, a few hours of genre writing and promo, occasionally some time on Trailer Park (it’s “done” but I want to perfect it) and a couple of hours writing and promoting Medium pieces. There’s no way I would be able to afford even my extremely modest lifestyle if my husband wasn’t working all the overtime he can get. Newspaper work doesn’t pay very much, but it was steady. All advice gratefully accepted. I work until my eyes ache every day and most of it isn’t paying off at all.