If You’re Not Doing This You’re Not Doing Medium Right
The secret ingredient that no one’s talking about
So you’ve read all the latest articles from the highest earners on Medium. You’ve got all the tips and tricks down, right?
Comment a lot?
Check.
Read a lot?
You know it.
Write a lot (with a catchy headline that doesn’t seem AI generated).
I write twice a day and I only use horizontal pictures.
And to top it off you are so consistent.
But there’s one thing you’re still missing. If you don’t do this, you won’t make it, just being real with you. No one’s talking about this — okay maybe a few people are, but NOT A LOT of people are talking about this.
Any guesses to what it is?
If You’re Not Doing This You’re Not Doing Medium Right
The one thing you must do is…
Have fun.
Surprised?
Medium can be a grind. Churning out pieces until your fingertips ache. Force feeding your daily quota of articles to read. Clapping and clapping, so much applause.
And then you check your views. They’re down. You check your reads. Even worse. And then, even though you’re not in it for the money, you check your earnings. $1.17.
You can’t just do Medium for the money.
Or the popularity.
You won’t last that way. No one will. UNLESS you enjoy it.
Medium Is Unique
Medium is a super unique platform. I don’t say that lightly. It’s a social network of WRITERS. People care about the craft here. The comments are actually insightful, not a cesspool of the worst of humanity.
You can literally write about anything you want and you can read about nearly everything you’d ever want to read about.
ENJOY IT.
HAVE FUN.
I read an article about Batman this morning that was insanely interesting. Not the normal thing I read, but it was served up to me here on Medium. And I loved it.
I get tips on productivity here.
I learn life lessons.
I read beautiful poetry.
I check my alerts and I hear from familiar voices, encouraging me, cheering me on to write more!
It’s incredible.
Don’t Forget
So by all means work on your headlines, optimize your images, and discipline yourself to write every day and comment even more. Take this seriously. Write like a professional but post like an influencer.
But don’t forget to have fun because what else is this about?
Love you guys,
Theo