When Writers Lie

On Medium and everywhere, it’s a weird trend

A canvas designed by me

Lately, I’ve come across some posts whose titles are catchy. And like any of those catchy articles, they catch people’s attention even if we rationally think we should not open them.

However, we go opening the “How I did an impossible thing in a short period” or “How I have impossibly made this amount of money.”

We know they are lying to us. Nevertheless, we trust. Maybe it’s our human side, trusting at least a little bit, that leads us to do that.

So, I’m no less human than anyone else, and I can’t help but want to know how someone actively did that. I want to know if that was possible because sometimes the impossible happens, and readers seeking motivation and inspiration wish to read that.

And these liars know precisely that’s what they want.

So, there we all go reading all those stories. Some call them funny, others call them fiction, and I call them stupidity.

Particularly one I read made me angry about the writer.

There they went rambling on about a whole story, leaving the reader hooked on their words, only at…