The Torah Files
Let’s Write About Other People’s Writing! This Week — HOGAN TORAH
How to write a post ripping off someone else’s work — legally!
I read Hogan Torah a few days ago, who said in his first piece for seven weeks.
“Good to see people are still writing about their lives as writers.”
I guess he didn’t mean it as a compliment.
“Let’s not talk about interesting things, this is Medium after all. Let’s talk about everyone on Medium’s favorite topic, Medium.com”
You can read his post at the end of this piece, but I thought I’d paraphrase it to save you time. Give me the loot instead of him. Why not? After all, two months ago, he made three grand on a story.
“Two months ago I wrote a story that made over 3 grand on Medium. Why would I waste my time writing a book? It’s a dying format.”
Harsh but true.
I know a guy who spent five years writing a book, published it on Amazon, and made FIVE quid. In dollars, that’s about SIX!
So much for the Medium Blue Tick. Which my friend couldn’t even get as you have to be a real published author. As Hogan pointed out.
— 98% of Medium: Hey, I’ve written a book!
— Medium: No, a real non Amazon book
— 97% of Medium: Shit
Although, it seems that even Hogan’s fallen into the trap of talking about Medium.com. Oops!
But he did give us a protip. (About writing.)
PROTIP: If you’ve already exhausted and milked your past trauma, Intentionally do one stupid thing a day to fuck up your life. This will give you something to write about. Normal is boring.
Absolutely. I’ll vouch for that!
He goes on to tell us that no one uses the word blogger anymore. And that storyteller is better.
I’m neither.
Which is why I changed my bio from Writer/Storyteller/Blogger/Edgelord to
I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written.
Torah’s on the other hand is
This sucks, Hogan.
I prefer this.
“Hogan Torah is a social media personality who writes on Medium.”
This is what he said in his piece. You should use this in your bio, Hogan. As you said yourself: Normal is boring.
He leaves his last rant for Mastodon.
“Mastodon looks like Twitter but it’s void of any fun. From the monochromatic color scheme to its feed’s adherence to static interests. I signed up and got bored in 3 minutes.”
I commented and said it looks like Netscape Navigator, but he didn’t get back to me. But perhaps you don’t need to when you’re a social media personality.
Thanks for reading Hogan Torah. For stuff written by me, check out