My One Year Journey on Medium
One year can make a huge difference
I can’t believe it’s been a year since I started my blogging career on Medium. It still seems like yesterday. When I was starting, I did not know what to write about. Since I like reading books, I thought of writing about lessons I had learned from the books.
I started slowly on Medium. I was publishing one article in a week. However, after a couple of months, I found that this method is too slow. I need to publish more articles.
So in May and June, I decided to publish 2–3 times a week. I was getting better results but still not much success.
After writing for 5 months, I decided to get serious about writing. I promised myself that I would every day no matter what. I would show up and write every single day.
I went from writing 8–10 articles a month to 20–25 articles. I doubled my efforts. Even though I was working very hard, I was not seeing the success I hoped for.
Still, I did not give up. I did not care about the results at all. I kept believing that one day I would succeed. That’s when the magic happened. On 24th Sep, I published this article on mathematics:
I published the article and went back to sleep. The next morning, I saw 200+ notifications and did not know what was happening. My article got curated and people loved my article.
It was getting so many views that I could not even imagine. It felt like dream come true and I finally started earning some money on Medium.
In October, I achieved my goal of earning $100+ in a month on Medium.
However, after this one article, I started slacking off. My productivity went down and I published very few (only 6) articles in the last 2 months of 2021.
Nonetheless, I will say that I am very satisfied with what I have achieved in one year. I never thought that I would earn more than $100 in a month just after 10 months. I still believe that I could have done better.
I can’t wait for 2022. There will be the milestones for me in 2022:
- Reach to 1000+ followers
- Earn at least $1000 in 2022
- Publish at least 150 articles in 2022 (I published 96 in 2021)
