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The Catch 22 of Writing on Medium
I am going to be really candid and raw for a moment, and I hope that you will bear with me.
I am a new-ish Medium writer, and so far, I LOVE THE CONCEPT. I enjoy the platform, and probably spend more time reading and writing on Medium, than I do scrolling through any other social app.
Much like all of you, my hope is to one day, get paid to write. I don’t care if its blog writing, poetry writing, writing fiction or nonfiction. Damn it I just want to be a successful writer, in ANY context.
This is where I am finding the catch:
MOST of the articles I find myself reading are “How to Be a Good Writer and Succeed on Medium”. My email floods with these daily.
I “get” that everyone wants to share how they have achieved success on this platform, and that they have found ways to spread their knowledge and share their tips and successes with all of us. However, we are all on here to WRITE. (Am I right?) We all want success, yes, but I feel like monetizing your skill by inundating everyone with articles about how you earned money by teaching everyone else how to earn money, is like an MLM company. Please correct me if I am wrong.
My regular 9–5 job,( the one that pays my bills), is Regulation Based (Government). The way I look at Medium for some…
