Why I Stopped Publishing As Often Since Taking The Medium Mastery Course

I started writing on Medium back in October when I was taking the One Funnel Away Challenge.

I was going through week 3 of the challenge when Russell Brunson started talking about publishing. Start a podcast, blog, or do Facebook/Instagram live once every single day for the rest of your life or until you become successful.

“If you publish once every day for 365 days, I promise that in a year, your life will look completely different from it is now.” — Russell Brunson

I took that idea to heart.

I started writing on Medium in October, and except for December (Medium blocked in China), I was doing pretty good.

I was publishing on Medium daily and focused a lot on the publishing part. If I didn’t have anything to write about, I would force an idea out.

For example, one of my older stories, Case Study Of A Creative Strategy To Generate Blog Post Ideas, was literally a blog post where I wrote whatever came to the top of my head.

As I’m writing, that story still has zero views.

I started wondering if I was doing something wrong when I began reading other people’s blog posts on their experience writing on Medium.

I was particularly shocked by the newbie successes. I read articles about how someone in their first month of writing on Medium made money and had a thousand views.

And there I was, almost four months into writing on Medium, and the most views I’ve ever seen was 20 people. Where was I going wrong?

The Medium Mastery Course Showed Me Where I Messed Up

One of the small articles referred to Tom Kuegler’s Medium Mastery course, and I decided to check it out.

And I realized I was only using 1% of what Medium was really capable of.

There was so much to do on this platform that I wasn’t doing.

I wasn’t following and connecting with other Medium bloggers, and I wasn’t writing for any publications. Thus, no one ever saw my blog posts, and I never got curated.

And without anybody seeing my articles, I was never being paid. Yet, I was working so hard writing a blog post every day.

The moment I started following other people and following some of the advice Tom presented in his course, I immediately did better than I did before.

However, as I learned more about Medium and how to succeed, I realized I needed to change my approach.

I could no longer publish daily all the time.

Quality Triumphs Over Quantity

When I first started writing on Medium, it was all about publishing as much as possible. I went under the mindset of “barfing” out first drafts daily.

The idea was that by writing so much, over time, I would get better, and eventually, one of my blog posts would be a gold nugget.

Over time, I did get better. I was writing a lot faster, and personally, I thought the quality was slowly improving.

But I wasn’t reaching anyone even if I had valuable ideas to say. I learned that to be successful on Medium, you had to publish in publications.

And recently, I have begun doing that more often. I’ve been sending out pitches and drafts to various publications with mixed success.

I’ve got one post published in The Ascent and one published in Data Driven Investor, but out of those two times, I have been rejected around six times so far.

What I realized is that some of the best writers in the world are all here on Medium.

I had to seriously up the quality of my writing if I ever wanted to succeed.

That meant I had to take more time to edit and revise my drafts to make it more beneficial to my readers.

And thus, instead of barfing out first drafts every day, I’ve been spending a lot more time editing those first drafts to turn them into articles that people can enjoy and benefit from.

What My Experience Means For You

You would be better off publishing one great article in one week than seven mediocre ones.

What I learned from writing on Medium is that a successful writer is not a writer that can write ten thousand words every day, but the writer can change your life ten thousand times for the better.

Every article you write should have a purpose, and you need to do your best to fulfill that purpose.

Write your first draft, take your time with edits, get other people’s feedback, and ask yourself, would I like to read this?

Go out on more adventures and find more great ideas to write about.

That’s what I have been doing instead of publishing once every day. I push myself to experience new things every day and then write about those unique things.

And maybe you should too.