You Don’t Need 10 Ideas to Write 10 Articles

Medium readers have two insatiable needs — you can leverage both to make your writing magnetic.

Today I will teach you to feed your Medium writing habit for life. You just need to understand two basic principles:

1. At least 20% of Medium readers will read every story about how Medium works.
2. Once you’ve hooked a reader with one Medium story, you can keep them coming back by providing updates.

Write a series of stories about what you earned from the boost (on day 1, week 1, etc.), and you will suck reading time from adoring eyeballs.

Some idiot did this recently with a story about hitting the daily comment limit. He then followed up with a story about Medium’s official response.

Then a genius reader wrote a story about the first writer’s scam, extending the streak of stories from a single idea.

There’s no limit to how long you can milk an idea. To you, Grandma Smillew.