How I Became a Medium Sherpa
Are You a Newbie? I’m Here to Help
One by one, my writer pals (and a bunch of my would-be writer pals) usually get around to asking me about Medium.
“Is it easy?” they’ll ask.
“Yes!” I’ll respond.
“Is it fun?”
“You bet!”
“Can I make good money on Medium?”
“Nope! Absolutely not! That won’t happen.”
“But,” I tell them, “if you join the platform and start writing, you’ll definitely make more money than if you hadn’t.”
After which they usually ask, “How do I start?”
Which is how I became an unofficial, unpaid Medium Sherpa, which is to say that several times a week I help folks set up an account here and start writing.
I walk them through the basic stuff that takes hours to puzzle out on your own but just minutes to master if you’ve got a good teacher, like how to publish a story in a ready-for-Curation format, how to make sure your work is behind the paywall…
