Blogging, Content Writing, Stories, Medium
How to Create Medium Stories — A Simple Tutorial With Tips
A guide for beginners and people without experience on Medium.
Here is a simple guide to start writing on Medium. These simple steps can help you get started in a few minutes.
How does Medium work?
Medium is a platform for people to share their thoughts, feelings, experiences and anything else you could write about.
The content is written by writers from around the world. You can follow your favorite writers and discover interesting topics.
When you find content on Medium that you like, you can “Clap” up to 50 times to give them support!
There are writers and publications on medium. Writers are the individuals who post the articles / stories. Publications are like “newspaper publishers”, where many writers can write for one publication, like for example ILLUMINATION.
Writers benefit from the followers and reach of the publication.
You can become a writer for a publication if you search for more information on how to become one on the publications home-page.
Every writer can make their own publication. For example, I made the publication “create now.”
For instance, I stated here how one could write for this publication:
How do the writers and medium earn money?
Medium has found a great way to keep their website free from general advertisement.
Medium has created the Medium Partner Program, where you can apply to when you have 100 Followers and published at least one story on medium. You also have to be 18+ and in one of the countries listed here:
Listed Countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
As soon as you get accepted, you have the option to “Meter your story”, which allows it to earn money with the engagement from Medium members, as well as users they convert to become Medium members.
Medium gets financed by its members, who pay $5 every month, so they have access to the wealth of knowledge medium offers. If you join with my affiliate link, I get $2.50 of your subscription, without you paying more!
If a paying member reads my story / interacts with it, i get a small part of the $5 they pay every month! I love this concept, as it encourages quality contents, instead of paid advertisement all over the website.
How to post your first story:
Here is a simple guide:
Step 1: Create an account on Medium
Click the top right corner of this page and sign up with your email address or Google / Facebook account. You will be sent a confirmation email immediately after signing up.
Step 2: Write a story
Now you can either click on the left button or on the “write a story” button. If you are on the mobile app of medium, you can start a story simply by clicking on the green + button in the app.
Step 3: Edit your story
Now that you are in the medium story editor, you just need an idea for a story!
You can write about pretty much anything you want, just remember to try things out and keep it about something you are passionate about.
Editing Tip 1: Add a kicker and subtitle to your title! When you put some keywords above the title and make format them to a subtitle, they will become a kicker, which can act as additional information about the story topics. When you format a sentence under the title to a subtitle, it will become a subtitle for the main title. This is also nice if you want to bring some order in your articles.
As I did in this article, you can just make titles and subtitles by selecting them and picking the big or small T symbol.
Editing Tip 2: Add some visual elements! I use canva premium for my medium images, which help a lot to make the articles more beautiful and understandable.
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Editing Tip 3: Be Creative! Try out new things, change things and watch how the readers react. Medium is like a playground where you can do whatever you want but the most important thing is to try out new stuff!
How long should your story be? There is no exact answer to this question, you can write as many words as you want! I usually shoot for around 500–1700 words.
You can even just put in a few sentences to say something about what you are working on. This could be about your life, your attitude or anything that inspires/motivates people.
Step 4: Publish your story
If you got accepted by a publication, you can submit the story now to a publication by clicking on the three dots and then “add to publication”:
After you have put some work in your first story, you can now publish it by clicking on “Publish” at the top right.
Search for some general keywords which fit the topic you are writing about, and click on “Publish and send now” or “Schedule for Later” if you want to set a date when the story should get automatically published.
Thats it! I hope you find this tutorial helpful in getting started on Medium. If you need more help, check out the Medium Help Center! You can also ask me in the comments:)
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