It’s Not Tedium it’s

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ot entirely. What truly matters is that Medium maintains a close relationship to Unsplash & its cache of images. In the early days, Medium boasted about being a platform devoid of frills that leaned, significantly, on the quality of the writing. A clean platform with a consistent style of black text on a white background. Fortunately, we’ve moved well past that &, now, having a random image that doesn’t contribute to the article in any meaningful way is not only normalized but is a requirement. It’s not clickbait; it’s Unsplash & the almighty, mysterious algorithm.Step 2, the ‘morning pages’ that Julia Cameron writes about in The Artist’s Way are a simple tool of writing three pages, first thing, each & every morning. It’s the act of prioritizing writing & making it a part of your every day, a part of your life. The pages can be about whatever you wish; the important bit is committing to producing at least three pages consistently each morning. This is, of course, if you subscribe to consistency & growth & that sort of thing. However, to turn that writing into Medium Gold, forget about doing it for your own growth. We’re trying to game the algorithm, after all. So, then, you should publish each page, individually, over the course of the day. Three separate posts each & every day. Nothing greases the algorithm quite like overloading it with a flow of stream-of-conscious, minute-long reads. The sweet spot is the length of three tweets, five images from Unsplash, & nothing being said, really. Make it uplifting, though, whatever it is you’re stringing together. You can do it. You’ve got this. Don’t forget to include an image, something

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cheerful.Step 3, so there’s writing & then there’s writing about writing, but, on this platform, that ‘writing about writing’ should be writing about your writing. Have an article or two about Something, sure, but what this platform is really built to highlight is the sort of writing that illustrates a writer’s experience writing about themselves writing. Have a graph or two, showcasing your Medium metrics. Sure it isn’t an image from Unsplash, but it’s at least an image. Put a timeline to how your writing took off, say anyone can do it too, & then add a link to your email list. Follow me to see how far the rabbit hole goes, &, since rabbit holes are usually one to two feet, we’ve already made it to the bottom. This being too deep already, take a step back & write a story about rabbit holes in a general sense, include an image, make it short. Now that that’s out of the way, get back to what’s really important & write about writing your rabbit hole story. Don’t forget to include a screenshot of the engagement metrics.So that’s the ticket. If you’ve followed these three steps, you haven’t actually said anything at all, but you have enough words to hit that publish button. Send it to a publication, make your own publication talking about publications. Soon you’ll have a follower, comment on their articles without actually reading them. Just keep digging down into the rabbit hole & cornering the niche audience of Writers on Medium, because, soon enough, that’s all that there will be on here. Let’s see how long this echo can keep reverberating around; echoes are loudest in an empty space, after all. Protect it.</article></body>

It’s Not Tedium it’s —

Forget everything you know. Well, not everything, of course, but it’s best to start with a dramatic first sentence. What I’m really asking is that you forget everything you know about writing, specifically all that. Forget those bits, because I’m about to uncover the same secrets that nine thousand other writers on Medium all say under various Numbered-Step Programs, &, if you remember anything about writing, this will seem a bit redundant. Of course, that hasn’t impeded anyone else on here; there’s nothing quite like following a formula until it’s well & truly worn into the dirt. You can trust me, though, because I don’t have a follower base &, therefore, nothing to prove. Does that check out? In any case, we’re already moving, so let’s take a little journey into the illusive Medium Mecca. How to be Here.

Step 1, then, is to select an absolutely meaningless photograph that is only tangentially related to your article. It doesn’t actually have to add anything to the piece that you’ve written, &, in fact, should hopefully not add anything meaningful. The vaguer — yet still click-worthy — the image is, the better. If you are new to this platform, you might be thinking that Medium is a platform to shine a spotlight on writing, but that is not the case. Not entirely. What truly matters is that Medium maintains a close relationship to Unsplash & its cache of images. In the early days, Medium boasted about being a platform devoid of frills that leaned, significantly, on the quality of the writing. A clean platform with a consistent style of black text on a white background. Fortunately, we’ve moved well past that &, now, having a random image that doesn’t contribute to the article in any meaningful way is not only normalized but is a requirement. It’s not clickbait; it’s Unsplash & the almighty, mysterious algorithm.

Step 2, the ‘morning pages’ that Julia Cameron writes about in The Artist’s Way are a simple tool of writing three pages, first thing, each & every morning. It’s the act of prioritizing writing & making it a part of your every day, a part of your life. The pages can be about whatever you wish; the important bit is committing to producing at least three pages consistently each morning. This is, of course, if you subscribe to consistency & growth & that sort of thing. However, to turn that writing into Medium Gold, forget about doing it for your own growth. We’re trying to game the algorithm, after all. So, then, you should publish each page, individually, over the course of the day. Three separate posts each & every day. Nothing greases the algorithm quite like overloading it with a flow of stream-of-conscious, minute-long reads. The sweet spot is the length of three tweets, five images from Unsplash, & nothing being said, really. Make it uplifting, though, whatever it is you’re stringing together. You can do it. You’ve got this. Don’t forget to include an image, something cheerful.

Step 3, so there’s writing & then there’s writing about writing, but, on this platform, that ‘writing about writing’ should be writing about your writing. Have an article or two about Something, sure, but what this platform is really built to highlight is the sort of writing that illustrates a writer’s experience writing about themselves writing. Have a graph or two, showcasing your Medium metrics. Sure it isn’t an image from Unsplash, but it’s at least an image. Put a timeline to how your writing took off, say anyone can do it too, & then add a link to your email list. Follow me to see how far the rabbit hole goes, &, since rabbit holes are usually one to two feet, we’ve already made it to the bottom. This being too deep already, take a step back & write a story about rabbit holes in a general sense, include an image, make it short. Now that that’s out of the way, get back to what’s really important & write about writing your rabbit hole story. Don’t forget to include a screenshot of the engagement metrics.

So that’s the ticket. If you’ve followed these three steps, you haven’t actually said anything at all, but you have enough words to hit that publish button. Send it to a publication, make your own publication talking about publications. Soon you’ll have a follower, comment on their articles without actually reading them. Just keep digging down into the rabbit hole & cornering the niche audience of Writers on Medium, because, soon enough, that’s all that there will be on here. Let’s see how long this echo can keep reverberating around; echoes are loudest in an empty space, after all. Protect it.