Are You Thinking of Increasing Your Readership by Joining a Medium Facebook Group?
Here’s What You Need to Know
Because I’m an (unofficial, unpaid) Medium Sherpa, writers often ask me how they can get their work to more readers.
One of the best ways to do this is to join a Medium Facebook group.
I currently belong to five fabulous Facebook groups for Medium writers:
Although the rules vary slightly from group to group, most operate by providing daily threads on which writers can post links to current work.
It’s fun and it’s easy.
All you have to do is go to the daily thread and post a link to your Medium Masterpiece.
And then you vamoose, never to be seen again!
No. Wrong. You absolutely don’t do that.
Instead, you scan that Daily Thread to find interesting posts by other writers, and then you read (and highlight and clap for and comment about) a few of those posts.
Why? You aren’t just on Medium to sit back and rake in the dough that results from our reading your work — you’re also here to read and enjoy our work. Right?
Well, if you aren’t, you certainly ought to be. There are some outstanding writers here.
Plus, if you just tool through Facebook groups dropping links without reading anybody else’s work, people will notice — and they’ll stop reading your work. (In Medium Facebook groups, as in everything else in life, you get out of it what you put into it.)
How do you join a Medium Facebook Group? That’s easy. You just ask!
You usually have to (1) answer a few basic questions about yourself and your writing and (2) agree to the Group’s Rules of Civility before they let you in. (Warning: if you violate those rules, they’ll toss you right back out again.)
And that’s it. If you join a few Medium groups, and both post and read the posts of others consistently, your audience will grow. Guaranteed. Not only that, but you’ll discover lots of writers whose work you’ll enjoy. So it’s a win win.
See on you Facebook!
(Questions? Post them as responses to this piece and I’ll do my best to answer them.)
Writing Coach and editor-for-hire Roz Warren, who writes for everyone from the Funny Times to the New York Times, can help you improve and publish your work. Drop her a line at [email protected]. (That’s Ros with an “s,” not a “z.”)
