Dear Medium Top Writers

Unpopular facts for top writers and newbies.

It doesn’t matter if you just started being tagged with the term “Top Writer” or if this is another article by a new writer trying to get applauds off your name. It also doesn’t matter if you have not been listed amongst Medium top 1000 writers. If you are not just joining Medium while reading this article, then you are a top writer to me. Be proud of yourself. Hold yourself in the highest esteem, as I do you.

With uttermost certainty, I have watched this inferno burn in me since I joined Medium mid-last year with several months of observation, or perhaps procrastination, before finally writing. Like many other beginners, I had my fair share of the toughest step in any writing career, which is actually ‘STARTING’. I wrote haphazardly and was very happy, as I did with laziness in finesse.

Just like my fellow Medium newbies, I am not alone in this darkness and charade that feels like we keep climbing and climbing, but still we keep descending and subtracting. As it may seem, I know I stand amongst thousands of new writers who also have not been ‘wowed’ or ‘oohed’ in our response tab for any article.

Therefore, I stand in front to put this inferno to a chokeslam and force our ways through this door by penning down my thoughts on what we know as new writers, and what you should know as a top writer.

What we know.

Even you top writers would agree that you were brought to viciously awe Medium when you first heard of it and eventually visited the website.

Well! The amazement is the same with us newbies too.

There are a thousand sentences full of both motivation and depression in every top writer’s voice when poked with the popular question, “How did you start?” Don’t be surprised. But we are also quite aware of some of them.

We know that;

-It won’t be easy:

The road to success is definitely not as slick as a flexible pavement or as wide as an airplane runway. We all know it’s more or less like a railway with ballast or a tiny dark tunnel with immense brewing of the unexpected.

Yes! We know that it would take a lot more than just starting. Also, that patience is needed and every thought of expectancy of the boom effect be erased in our minds, as it will only happen when we have cemented our names through time.

-Dollar Decision:

Well, I’m sorry, but speculations are not allowed here. We know that we have to decide swiftly and almost immediately after sealing our membership lid on Medium — do we want to write for fun or for one (One being $).

Robert Kiyosaki once said in a context that to earn success in a field, monetize your vigor.

I discovered this trait in almost all top writers, that although the passion and want of putting your thoughts are present, but most definitely you have taken writing as a business. Thus, you have incorporated every iota of seriousness in the field as you would your daily business.

-Consistency:

Just like every other life/career path, we know that to attain that ‘demi-god’ level, we have to devote our time and shed the paw sweat. Thus determining what area is our spectrum of expertise; i.e, NICHE.

-Undoubted growth:

Growth in writing is beyond just getting freelance jobs and becoming the ‘creme de la creme’ of pen control. It has to do more with taking rigorous writing and vocabulary courses, trying different niches, participating in writing challenges, and pushing your limits with writing exercises.

Without a doubt, we lower-shelf Medium writers are aware of all these facts. Some of us by watching your videos and others by following you on Medium closely.

But as we take advice from you anonymously, here are few things you Medium top writers should know.

What you should know.

Although, we may lack fancy vocabulary, and do not yet have a shelf full of writing awards, and thus you may not feel have achieved a level that entitles us to offer advice or advocate a sentence to you demi-gods, with literally well-sharpened amazing writing skills. But here goes nothing. You should:

-RCR:

Read, clap and respond to our articles.

Awful advice, as it does feel so normal. But guess what? This single act might either spark the mind that would become the next top writer, or be of immense help to your forthcoming article/best seller book.

Because for a fact, in awe of wanting to impress readers, we lower-shelf Medium writers search for ideas and information in waters beyond the deep sea. Therefore, do well by literally reading and not just clapping to our articles.

-Come closer, don’t be scared:

Unpopular fact; Top writers are one of the most disturbed elites of any profession.

From mails, direct messages, to constant intentional responses, many top writers truly get many knocks on your career doors from unknown newbies every single day. It’s not enough to just applaud them and say thank you. But also try to go the extra mile to create a sort of method where you would give leverage to some of them for possible mentorship so as to imbibe your inferior writing knowledge in them.

-Watch your response:

There is not much to say here. Other than for you to watch over your readers, who have undoubtedly played a great role in your success. By reporting fraud accounts who have impersonated your fellow shelf colleagues to pass on financial fraud gimmicks and moral danger on your followers.

-Sell failure:

Of course not! Not in the proper sense, no!

Although quite frankly, some of you top writers have expressed your failures in many articles. But unlike your wins, you don’t stress them as much. Devote some of your articles to the confused and sizzled lower-shelf Medium writers and help us with detailed information of how you plied through this writers’ smoke feud.

Lastly, till our inks dry out and our hands start wiggling, we lower shelf Medium writers, will constantly applaud all generations of top writers before us who have set the pace with ecstasy.

Thus, cross your T’s and dot your I’s for the new generation of Medium TOP WRITERS to come.