Christina you are a great writer, I want to believe with you that there is a bright side of Medium. However most of the links you provided in the story are broken.
Oh wow. I see that Victoria is gone from Medium, and so are her stories. Now I need to see what happened. It's possible she got caught in the spam filter and was booted on accident. Or maybe she closed her account.
Hey Christina...I returned to Medium. For the remainder of March, I committed to write every day, sharing Lessons to my Younger Self. We'll see how this goes!
HaHa...as far as writing daily on Medium...epic fail. I only wrote 3 articles and made a few pennies. I like Medium so I'll continue writing there. What more can I say...my plate is full with my move and relaunch of my business. It's been 5 years and I'm excited to work closer with my daughters and son.
Thanks Christina for sharing your thoughts about Medium. I guess that the platform is taking a different approach and for better or for worse it’s changing. We either adapt to the change or we move on.
Thanks, Christina! Just purchased mine and can’t wait to read it! I appreciate you, your research, your writing and your support of other writers!! I have a hunch I’ll be giving this 5 stars when I’m done:) :)
Excellent, Christina! I’m glad to hear that some on Medium are doing well. My mortgage story earned almost $900 in January and it’s pushing a total of $2200 now and I’m almost 3 months out. I fully understand and agree that Medium is not dead. I never thought that anyway. I knew it was a reset or pivot. Did you read this by Argumentative Penguin? If not, you need to. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/is-now-the-best-time-to-stop-writing-on-medium-987fc98e9fcb
He details a complete history of all the pivots that Medium has made. And Tony even pops in to confirm. Some are saying that M is trying to move to a more professional writing platform which is why they’re hosting workshops for academics who aren’t great writers. I personally don’t think that’s going to fly. But hey, who am I anyway? LOL
Congrats to you! I'm so happy your story is still kicking butt. I always think about it when I pay my mortgage bill. lol
I didn't see that story, but I'm off to read it now. Thanks for sharing!
(And I hope Medium doesn't become more professional with academic writing only. I would definitely bail because who wants to pay $5 or $15 per month to be bored to tears?)
Yes everyday I’m getting more followers when before I felt like a ghost for a LONG time before
That’s great news!
I’ve never written on medium and wondered if it’s a little too late to start.
How often do you publish there? And do you publish same articles from Substack on medium? Or completely new ones?
I don’t think it’s ever too late to start.
I mostly publish different things on Medium and Substack, but once in a while I’ll copy a Medium article to post on here if it makes sense.
I haven’t been publishing as much on Medium. I wrote 12 articles in March.
Christina you are a great writer, I want to believe with you that there is a bright side of Medium. However most of the links you provided in the story are broken.
Oh wow. I see that Victoria is gone from Medium, and so are her stories. Now I need to see what happened. It's possible she got caught in the spam filter and was booted on accident. Or maybe she closed her account.
They are? 🤔 I always test my links. I need to see what's happening...
Got to try more things.
I think you’re doing a great job trying different topics. Are any of them working well for you?
So far so flat. Still looking.
Hey Christina...I returned to Medium. For the remainder of March, I committed to write every day, sharing Lessons to my Younger Self. We'll see how this goes!
Keep me posted!
HaHa...as far as writing daily on Medium...epic fail. I only wrote 3 articles and made a few pennies. I like Medium so I'll continue writing there. What more can I say...my plate is full with my move and relaunch of my business. It's been 5 years and I'm excited to work closer with my daughters and son.
It sounds like everything happening is a positive! I'm happy for you. :)
Yes definitely positive. Thanks Christina.
Great advice and inspiration to keep going on Medium, I will start writing there and here soonish.
It’s worth a try over there!
Thanks Christina for sharing your thoughts about Medium. I guess that the platform is taking a different approach and for better or for worse it’s changing. We either adapt to the change or we move on.
Yes, they are constantly switching things up, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. So, might as well hang in there and go along for the ride!
Thanks, Christina! Just purchased mine and can’t wait to read it! I appreciate you, your research, your writing and your support of other writers!! I have a hunch I’ll be giving this 5 stars when I’m done:) :)
Aw, thanks so much! I appreciate that! 😁
Excellent, Christina! I’m glad to hear that some on Medium are doing well. My mortgage story earned almost $900 in January and it’s pushing a total of $2200 now and I’m almost 3 months out. I fully understand and agree that Medium is not dead. I never thought that anyway. I knew it was a reset or pivot. Did you read this by Argumentative Penguin? If not, you need to. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/is-now-the-best-time-to-stop-writing-on-medium-987fc98e9fcb
He details a complete history of all the pivots that Medium has made. And Tony even pops in to confirm. Some are saying that M is trying to move to a more professional writing platform which is why they’re hosting workshops for academics who aren’t great writers. I personally don’t think that’s going to fly. But hey, who am I anyway? LOL
I loved that article! But it sent me down a rabbit hole of all the other articles Penguin linked in that one. haha Good stuff!
Congrats to you! I'm so happy your story is still kicking butt. I always think about it when I pay my mortgage bill. lol
I didn't see that story, but I'm off to read it now. Thanks for sharing!
(And I hope Medium doesn't become more professional with academic writing only. I would definitely bail because who wants to pay $5 or $15 per month to be bored to tears?)
I agree! 😆 I love that the writing is varied on Medium, I’d be bored if it was one-note writing.
I know that’s better to make money faster (to write with one central topic), but it’s so hard for some of us to do that!
Congratulations, Christina!
Thanks so much!
You're right. A lot of articles that get boosted are about topics I would never write about. I'm OK with it.