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aign=image&utm_content=5655424">Hatice EROL</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=5655424">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure>This last image is the one that comes to mind when I say, “the lean back.” You have 500+ followers you have the responsibility to ‘lean back’ and pull your fellow writers up. As you go. Then so they too have that responsibility once they’ve hit a mark. Less than 500 followers and you’re still struggling your own self. Over 1K followers? You could lean back and pull one, maybe even two writers up.Let me clarify.From time to time I do Editor’s Choice, Editor’s Select, Featured, etc., and profile anywhere from one writer per article up to four. Especially if they are written in the same niche or theme such as humor, for example.All of these articles about writer's block? Rubbish. Even if off the top of your head you can’t summon up a topic, then what’s stopping you from using the name and material of a fellow writer as your topic?>Why do you read this writer? >What makes them unique in your eyes? >Do you read their material consistently? >Do you highlight a lot of their stuff? >Recommend? >Clap? >Quote? >Has anything they have ever written inspired you to write a piece of your own?That last one is the one that gets me going. A lot. I’ve done several featured articles on writers just since January whe

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n I became an editor.I typically take Sundays as my, what I call, Washington Post Sunday day. Back when I lived in the DMV, (that would be DC/MD/VA for those outside of the Beltway), I would buy the WaPo on Sundays. Back then it was several inches thick. It would virtually take me all day to read the thing, and I loved it. Then came a time when you could buy Sunday's paper on Saturday. That was a dream come true, but I’ll save that for another day.I’d spread it out and read, read, read. That’s what I do on Medium now. As an editor, I’ll see things run across my screen that I will want to read as a reader later on so I publish it and then Save (that’s the little icon that sort of looks like a weird flag). Then come Sunday it’s my version of WaPo Saved articles day. I spend the day in bed with nonstop coffee refills and just read, highlight, clap, and comment. That alone is an excellent way to boost a saged and new writers alike.But then to hit Write Story and tag them in it, include a link to one of your fave stories of theirs, and write about them and their work, that takes Medium’s writer-to-writer relationalism to a whole new level. And yes, I stated that correctly. Readers aren’t always writers, but almost always writers are readers.Capisci?And yeah I could throw in the cliches of karma, pay-it-forward, etc. however…How about just this one time we do it because it’s the right thing to do?</article></body>

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If You Have More Than 500 Followers You Need To Read This

And if you have 1k or more, you most certainly need to read this

**THIS IS A NO-NO.** Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

We have an obligation to lean back, extend a hand, and pull forward.

**THIS IS A YES!** Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

**A most definite yes!** Image by Hatice EROL from Pixabay

This last image is the one that comes to mind when I say, “the lean back.” You have 500+ followers you have the responsibility to ‘lean back’ and pull your fellow writers up. As you go. Then so they too have that responsibility once they’ve hit a mark. Less than 500 followers and you’re still struggling your own self. Over 1K followers? You could lean back and pull one, maybe even two writers up.

Let me clarify.

From time to time I do Editor’s Choice, Editor’s Select, Featured, etc., and profile anywhere from one writer per article up to four. Especially if they are written in the same niche or theme such as humor, for example.

All of these articles about writer's block? Rubbish. Even if off the top of your head you can’t summon up a topic, then what’s stopping you from using the name and material of a fellow writer as your topic?

>Why do you read this writer? >What makes them unique in your eyes? >Do you read their material consistently? >Do you highlight a lot of their stuff? >Recommend? >Clap? >Quote? >Has anything they have ever written inspired you to write a piece of your own?

That last one is the one that gets me going. A lot. I’ve done several featured articles on writers just since January when I became an editor.

I typically take Sundays as my, what I call, Washington Post Sunday day. Back when I lived in the DMV, (that would be DC/MD/VA for those outside of the Beltway), I would buy the WaPo on Sundays. Back then it was several inches thick. It would virtually take me all day to read the thing, and I loved it. Then came a time when you could buy Sunday's paper on Saturday. That was a dream come true, but I’ll save that for another day.

I’d spread it out and read, read, read. That’s what I do on Medium now. As an editor, I’ll see things run across my screen that I will want to read as a reader later on so I publish it and then Save (that’s the little icon that sort of looks like a weird flag). Then come Sunday it’s my version of WaPo Saved articles day. I spend the day in bed with nonstop coffee refills and just read, highlight, clap, and comment. That alone is an excellent way to boost a saged and new writers alike.

But then to hit Write Story and tag them in it, include a link to one of your fave stories of theirs, and write about them and their work, that takes Medium’s writer-to-writer relationalism to a whole new level. And yes, I stated that correctly. Readers aren’t always writers, but almost always writers are readers.

Capisci?

And yeah I could throw in the cliches of karma, pay-it-forward, etc. however…

How about just this one time we do it because it’s the right thing to do?