Don’t Leave Me This Way, Medium

When Curation Is Done And Dusted

Disclaimer: To enhance Your best reading experience, play ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ by Thelma Houston.

We’re processing your story. Hang in tight.

There’s no more anticipation for our stories to be curated. Done and dusted! But, Medium, don’t leave me this way. Because

I can’t survive, I can’t stay alive, without your Curation.

The wind of change has come, and Medium is all about readership and relational — , so it claimed. What was it all about? While this message isn’t new and in fact, it all sounds too familiar. Like the other previous pioneers of social media always claimed: it’s all about user experience. We want to build a community where everyone is equal and have the same opportunity — Yaddah yaddah.

This is all getting a little too familiar. No curations, but Medium will discover stories and keep working on the improvement. But what is it supposed to mean? Haven’t you done it all along via Curation? The words are clear, but the message is cryptic.

We will discover and promote stories and are investing in improving our mechanism for doing so.

It’s no denial we’re all writers, emerging and established, need their readers. But what makes Medium exceptional, readers are writers too.

But some writers don’t write advice for other writers — or readers — how to earn 2,000 a month on Medium, well, to get $ 2,000 a month on Medium.

Yes, you can gobble it all the way down your throat, earn $ 2,000 a month on Medium. Some writers don’t write how to get 4K followers to get 4K followers. Some writers don’t own shit tons of self-help books, rewrite it, to get shit tons of viewing and readership. Some writers don’t advise their readers how to write articles that readers — -or other writers — will read to get shit tons of viewing and readership.

I know you’re confused and lost. Let put it this way. If you want to get readers to read your article, then write an article and more articles on how to get people to read your article. If you’re going to earn $ 2,000 a month from Medium, write one and heaps more and more writing on how to make $ 2,000 from Medium. If you’re going to get the best selling self-published book, then write how to publish best selling books? When words are cold, selling dreams may warmup desires.

Com’ on, satisfy the need in me.

These are what readers will guarantee read, and for writers to build their readership and relational, Write articles that give a realistic value to readers. These values should have a clear objective and an exact, numeric amount, such as earn $ 2,000 a month on Medium, Get 4K followers in a week, publish the best-selling book on Amazon, here is the shortcut life hacks for happiness and confidence.

Let put it this way. If you dream of getting $ 2,000 a month if you dream of getting shit tons of followers if you dream of writing the best selling book on Amazon if you dream publishing a best-selling novel, don’t work the shit out of it, write and sell those dreams to readers who aim to dream of it.

But, is it all I want it? 2,000 a month worth of writing and selling dreams? A large span of readership writing the objectives of a shortcut life hack for happiness and confidence, Is it really the readership and ‘relational’ I want it? Am I a writer of those cold-word dreams?

Will all those articles — gone viral, viewings and huge readership — get curated? Absolutely not. Perhaps many will get through. But why? Don’t those articles have such longevity of earning in the stats? Then why curated articles don’t always make a good deal of viewing and readership? This is a million dollars question that none can have an exact answer, but one thing for sure, those curated articles breath and live the higher universal values, the genuine voices that value humanity; passion, compassion, and inclusion.

Those are the three core values that Medium should focus on their readerships and relational to readers and writers.

There are essayists whose feeling and emotion are raw whenever they write their life stories. Some personal essayists write a certain degree of their personal life with bravery, honesty and integrity.

There are poets whose words shine through and touch the core of humanity in just a 1 minute of reading. There are technology writers who favour technologies to enhance life and for a better environment and human being.

Will all those stories get curated? Absolutely not, but one thing for sure, stories like those mentioned above, will mostly get curated.

As for the best coding formula for your algorithm, try this one, Medium: inclusion.

I can’t exist. I’ll surely miss your curation kiss.

So why killed Curation? If Curation has allowed all writers of both renown and unknown, to write and believe in those values, and motivate them to keep producing high content quality stories.

Medium wants that readership and relational, but, if this kind of readership and relational, by killing Curation, Medium is heading towards a perfect readership and relational paradigm for writers who sell empty, meaningless dreams to readers.

You started this fire down in my soul.

It’s all getting too familiar, and I can’t resist it. This is the problem with the internet right here, right now. The young generation — the one with the glossy and glassy eyes not so young anymore — who pioneered social media came out and marched together on the street to make this world a better place. Of course, their version of a better place, a better world.

But the thing is the world has always been a better place right before we were all born. Lesson learned from a bearded elderly tribal leader — please allow me to borrow your term, Julia E Hubbel — who lives life for the living as old as a mountain: you don’t march the street to make the world a better place. But you can make a better human for the world and humanity.

But changes have always made you reflect on yourself, asking yourself ‘Why I’m here on Medium?’ After publishing 23 articles for almost a year, seven or eight curated stories later, I learned that :

• Always aim to write with authenticity.
• Always motivated to write with my voice, because Medium curators love a personal story with uniqueness, standing out among other similar ones under a similar topic.
• Whatever story I write, I do my research, and I acknowledge them.
• Concise writing with standard grammar. Whether you despise the writing software such as Grammarly, we can’t avoid any errors, and that’s a part of human nature, mainly when you write more than 1,000 words. It would help if you still had grammar checks and punctuations. Or make your loved ones a proofreader.
• Write with passion and compassion. When you stand in front of your computer and write sentence by sentence, then reread rewrite it. Ask yourself if your words embody compassion, whether you write with passion.

Curated stories may not be viral and gain extensive viewing and reading numbers, but for an article to be distributed and promoted across Medium platform in a particular topic is an achievement for a writer. Curation allows a writer being embraced by a broader scope of readers. It is where the start of genuine readership and relational that a writer brings to his/her authorship and for publication to extend their readership network.

Writing is like being able to fly and see the world wherever you want it. You’re free, and it’s liberating — and that quiet misunderstood introverted kind in you, people see no more through your writing.

Oh, don’t leave me this way, no.

Don’t leave me this way.