Sarah, I'm trying to help you here. EArnign money depends on a few things - mostly that people want to read what you write. Added to that, there is an elment of luck, but if one perseveres long enough, provided enough people want to read one and keep reading one, one will eventually win out.

If you're not making money with nearly 2000 followers, then it's because your followers aren't reading you. Where a lot of people make a mistake is they think because they ahve followers, those followers are going to read them. They don't. That's why adding people don't work. Even if they add you back, they're not going to read you. If they were reading you, I can assure you that with the number of follower you have, you would be making money.

The other thing is this. If you're writing on the web, you're writing for an international audience, and unless you're world famous, what happens in your life isn't of interest to anyone. I understand that you might like to write about those things, but that was what journals were about in the old days.

There is a vast difference between writing the kind of thing that goes into a journal and writing things for public consumption.

The other aspect of this is that writing is an over-subscribed occupation. Only very few make a living of it - .003%, in fact. This is why it is so terribly unethical for all these web gurus to say that anybody can earn a living writing. It's simply not true. There aren't sufficient readers, and there are a lot of competitions for those readers.

I have been poor all my life because I'm a writer. I've had times I've earned a reasonable sum, and other times where I have spent years living in the poor house. It's not about a lack of skill. It's simply that there are millions of people in the world who want to be writers, and it's really, really hard to earn a living from it.