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4 Listicles That are Worthy of Curation
Because we don’t want to be known as a publication of lists.
Everyone hates listicles. Yet, everyone reads them, and some of us even admit writing them.
I am a big fan of listicles. I even have a listicle in the making on ideas about which I want to write listicles.
But I can’t write listicles. They are for lazy writers who want to make a quick buck. Where is the glory in that? A true artist must suffer.
We all want to write listicles, but we don’t want to admit it, so we find ways around doing so.
In a desperate move, I came up with an idea and manipulated my ever so gullible friend and techie extraordinaire, Holly Jahangiri, into co-creating this publication of listicles.
Except we don’t call them listicles. That wouldn’t be cool. So, instead, we curate the list.
In my dire need for justification, I have decided to curate a list of listicles to give them legitimacy.
So here we go; four listicles that are worthy of curation in a publication that is shy about being known as a publication of listicles.
And who can be better than the co-creator herself to get the ball rolling?
Have you noticed that a lot of the listicles on Medium are about writing and writers? Need I say most of them are, er… less than useful. But there are always exceptions to any rule.
Speaking of exceptions to the rule, here is a listicle that doesn’t use a number in the headline. It doesn’t tell you how long the list is. Pretty clever, because it is a LONG list.
Another exception to the rule is Helen Cassidy Page. I mean, she is older than God; she has no business writing on Medium. She is making everyone else look bad, and she doesn’t hesitate to brag about her experience either.
And then, you can be like Timothy Key, and get creative about adding a numerical to your title that is not, in fact, a listicle, but has a list that includes more items than the number in the title. Confused? Good! Go read the listicle that is not a listicle but has a list.
BTW, the best part of the story above is the “private” conversation between Timothy and Holly.
I am sure that after I publish this because I can as an editor of this publication, I am going to get a talking to about violating some of my own rules/guidelines. How can there be exceptions to rules if you don’t break them?
As always, thank you for reading and responding.
Rasheed Hooda is a published author, and a regular contributor and editor for ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium, where writers support each other.
He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship.
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