Showing up is half the battle.
What I’ve learned from my Medium earnings
(I was initially going to include an image of money in the form of dollar bills, but honestly, my monthly earnings lately have been hardly more than cents)
I looked over my Medium earnings for this month as opposed to the past few months, and I found something out.
The more I engage with other writers on the platform, the more comments I leave on people’s posts after reading, and the more I churn out content with different themes, the more likely I am to draw readers in.
When I framed writing as a zero-sum game where writers compete for readers’ attention, I felt this deep sense of despair.
When I thought of writing on Medium as my primary mode of expression, however, everything changed.
It does matter if you want to make a living off writing. But I’m not here for that.
I’m here to show up and see if I can provide value to the people around me.
And even if I don’t, I know I can keep moving on.
I can never accurately predict how well a post will go for people.
Ones I write with the deepest passions can result in no views while ones I churn out in the space of ten minutes can yield several…
