This Is Terrifying, But I’m Doing It Anyway.
What the many hours of Medium research didn't tell me…..
I have rewritten this sentence over 50 times.
I am terrified to keep my fingers moving, yet I am extremely excited and feel the positive energy behind me doing this.
I need to let you know, that no amount of research on Youtube, Medium, or Google…. will prepare you for the feeling when you finally start your first articles on Medium.
It was actually incredibly easy for me to start my About section in my profile. Most people on their profiles have a few sentences or words to describe themselves. I felt that approach was not appropriate for me. Since I am new to publishing writing, I felt that my readers needed to have a more clear picture of who I am, and what to expect from my writing.
As soon as I completed that, I then went to my stories and started a new draft and pasted my About into it. I then proceeded to add many more personal details and views, and another picture.
I sent it to this publication on Medium called About Me Stories.
It felt pretty easy for me to do all of that, yet now that I am done talking about general information on myself, I am shaky when I think of moving forward. No one can prepare you for this. This is a feeling that you will have to succumb to, and then climb your way out of, in order to succeed on this platform.
I have yet to have what most would consider success on Medium, but I am just beginning and I have done enough research to understand how the game works.
You must be fearless and authentic in your writing to reach people as you are intending to.
If you just constantly churn out mindless content, you will not be reaching people as you truly wish to. There will be no connections made with your readers. Your words will not resonate with the mind, heart and soul of your readers.
Why come on Medium and write, if this is not a major motivating factor in your decision to publish?
I have many more things to learn regarding this platform and I look forward to learning. I look forward to slowly but surely getting over my fear. What is that fear? My mind can't place it into words, but my body is most definitely responding to an emotion.
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