Writing

Take My Advice: Be Careful Whose Advice You Take

What I learned in my first three months of writing on Medium and where I am a year later

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Why are you reading this? Is this not yet another in an endless parade of personal stories about how someone got started on Medium and achieved some modicum of success in a relatively short time? Do you honestly think reading about my experience is going to be of any help to you whatsoever? If so, you may be right. Then again, you may not.

Nobody knows anything

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The fact is, everyone’s experience on Medium is going to be different because we’re not all writing about the same things, we don’t all have the same goals, and what works for one is not going to work for everyone.

I cannot give you the “Top Ten Ways” or the “Five Best Strategies,” or the “Only Advice You’ll Ever Need” about making it on Medium. All I can do is tell you what has and what hasn’t worked for me and hope that there’s something here you can use.

I’m not making any promises, though, because, as screenwriter William Goldman so…