I am a Recommend Whore
I’ll write “fuck” and “fucking” in the title to get more recommends. I don’t use these words much otherwise. It works. My two most popular articles have expletives in the title:
Quality is what I got, Quantity is what I want
No worries with my stuff The Bosha
None of my stories ever got more than 60 recommends and only one got more than 25.
Writer’s note: March 2017 Update: This story is now my second-most recommended story with 73 recommends.
My most recommended story with over 80 recommends is:
On the other hand, the most brilliant writers, readers and commenters on Medium follow me, which I deeply appreciate. Here is the definitive list of the most discerning readers on Medium:
Richard Palmquist, DVM GDVCHM CCHVM
Thank you to all of you whose encouragement means the world to me.
Just by clicking that “Follow” box you helped to achieve something big for me: to be heard. I have never written articles like these for public consumption before.
I am a writer. I worked as a writer for ten years. One of my books was printed 30,000 times. That sounds far more wonderful than it was. Like Richard Bach before me, I wrote technical manuals.(“Press Enter to continue”).
Thank you for hearing me.
Thank you also to the people who read these articles:
Some men found this funny. I wasn’t intentionally amusing:
Just the fact that you guys read these articles makes me want to weep with gratitude. The internet, and especially Medium, is still a beautiful thing. (Any article that mentions Medium and tags it gets more recommends)
Click the green heart below to send me into rhapsodies of delight.
That’s another thing, I want to make you laugh, like the way I laughed until I cried at Sonny Bohanan’s article yesterday:
Have a wonderful Sunday and thanks again for following me.
