One year of reading and writing

And what I’ve learned

Actually, it was a year last month. I’ve learned a lot about Medium in that year, and even more about myself. In some cases, the two overlap.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that writing for Medium is a lot like writing a short story or a novel. Medium stories are themselves short stories, albeit mostly non-fiction short stories.

From that epiphany, I’ve learned that the best way for me to write is to write for myself. By that I mean that I write about things that interest me, with only…

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Robyn Sinéad Sheppard

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Genderqueer asexual curmudgeon. She/her/hers. Time-traveler. Essayist. "Ego sum, ergo sum scribere."

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