What do you mean? If the call doesn't finish ITM, you collect premiums. If it does you're only missing on the upside. You don't make as much money as you could

What do you mean? If the call doesn't finish ITM, you collect premiums. If it does you're only missing on the upside. You don't make as much money as you could have, but either way you make a profit. Or is that not how it works? I've never written my own options.