Let’s Talk About Medium Burnout
I’m feeling it a bit myself
I’m at a bit of a crossroads. I was going over a Medium article this past weekend for the umpteenth time editing, revising, researching, because an editor thought it had boost potential. And I’m grateful for their feedback. I really am. But my piece didn’t make the grade when it hit the Medium curator’s desk. And I was left wondering whether, if I’d switched sections around, it would have changed anything. Probably not.
I did the same thing on a history piece that had potential a few weeks earlier. The extra research was particularly fascinating on that one. It often is interesting on history topics. And up until a few months ago, that extra work tended to pay off — more often than not anyway. Last month it didn’t.
I’ve done extra work many times recently for articles that nominators felt had potential, but weren’t quite ready. But this past month, where I’ve valiantly put in extra work at the editors’ requests, my pieces have been consistently getting rejected by Medium curators.
Last month, despite working my butt off, it looked like it was going to be another boostless month. I had a win towards the end, but we’ll come back to that.
Boost is getting harder to achieve and even the nominators are struggling to know what is required to make…
