The Writing of Puffery On Medium

Wiki defines puff pieces as “an article or story of exaggerating praise that often ignores or downplays opposing viewpoints or evidence to the contrary.”

If you like to read puff pieces, you need to know that you’re being manipulated. Pixabay Mohammad Hasan.

Call me cynical, if you must, but the number of puff pieces written about writing on Medium (and elsewhere) is sickening. If the only way one can get to be called a writer is by writing pieces that tell other people who want to be writers that:

writing makes one special,
that it requires great sensitivity towards others,
that it is done with blood, sweat, and tears,
that it touches one’s deepest emotions and somehow writers must delve deep to write truly,
that it is a difficult thing to achieve,
that grammar doesn’t matter,
that other writers must support you,
that if you practice your morning pages each day, you will eventually be a writer,
that it’s all about confidence in yourself,
that if you comment on other people’s writing, you will be successful,
and other garbage,