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About Me — Will Murphy
It all started with a ZX81, and look where it’s got me!
I joined Medium in April 2019. I had heard about it on a podcast, and I liked the longer form format of its content. I hadn’t originally planned to contribute, but in July 2019, I wrote my first piece, Money, The Great Confidence Trick, and to my delight, people read it.
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I had attempted to get into blogging on several occasions, but my blogs were solitary places. It was a catch-22 situation. Few noticed my early posts, which meant that I lost motivation, and I wrote less. The blogs were rarely updated, so there was little incentive to visit them.
Medium was just what the doctor ordered for my writing. I’d always enjoyed stringing words together, but I’ve never trained as a writer. That meant that although I write well occasionally, I didn’t know how to do it deliberately. I’d ride a wave of enthusiasm, and sometimes it worked. Too often it didn’t.
