5 Things That Every Successful Writer on Medium Have in Common

For you, I reveal the secret of these medium Targaryens.

Ikada Mario

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4 min readJan 21, 2023

This is essentially a love letter to each one of you…

my beautiful reader.

Ok, here we go.

Started with mentioning these names:

So, based on three Asian guys (Japanese, Balinese, and Vietnamese) with three different jobs (IT Analyst, Journalist, and Web developer), we finally figured out why these people the “Medium Targaryen” were able to grow so big.

After 5 days of constantly burning our balls in front of a computer observing all of their writing styles, word selection, topic sentences, concluding elements, paragraph structures, punchline characters, etc.

We come to a conclusion. Matter of speaking, I come to a conclusion.

And this is a model that I began implementing in my writing. Each trait is equally essential and all are tied to one another.

FYI; we even do research at the park in the middle of the day, at 12 am in Bali, on the bird-shitting bench like an ISIS.

Passion

First and foremost, passion is what readers feel from them whenever they interact or publish their work, whether it’s in a comment reply or in an article.

If you’re an OG writer, your potential readers will know right away if you care about the work you do and the subject you write about. And if you’re a legit entrepreneur, your passion should be what drives you to get up every day and run your business.

Theoretically, your work should be your passion. Those people are passion-driven; even one of them has written hundreds of articles in a fairly short time and yet still nailed it.

I’ll lick that bird-shitting Russian bench if they tell me it's not a passion.

Persistence

Persistence is the uncanny ability to never give up on what you want to do, no matter how long it takes.

During early my days of photography and journalist, a lot of people didn’t take me seriously because I didn’t have the same level of credibility and documented results that I do today.

Many who work in the art and digital section give up on social media quickly because they don’t see instant results. As I’ve covered in a previous article, there is no immediate ROI in social media.

It’s a long-term play, and you have to be “annoying cute,” persistent, and in people’s “For you” to be seen. Posting once a month and walking away just won’t cut it unless you are a Medium Velaryon (Barrack Obama).

Seriously sir, why do you have to be here anyway? Haha. Menteng Pride.

dude…

Perseverance

Although they share certain similarities, perseverance is a state of mind whereas persistence is a method (being persistent). Every creator or writer starts out with no followers.

In order to establish a presence on Medium, you may need to write hundreds of posts before you begin to notice a substantial impact. It also requires a mix of stunning narration and emotions that captivate people’s attention.

Most of the time, it comes down to how. I did some A/B testing on this one to see what worked and what didn’t. Once I found out that certain strategies led to a certain result, I used those strategies more.

Personality and persuasion.

Let’s face it, we are all ‘in business’ for the same outcome… this platform sells something.

As a writer, I do very little writing about fiction or emotional epic topic because people know me as an answer to their questions. Nobody knows me, and after reading some statistics people rather engage in Youtube-based content to find entertainment.

However, someone might look at the writing that I have posted and view my article as being my ‘sales pitch’ without ever mentioning a name or even a website.

You don’t have to tell everyone what you do and there’s a level of reliability to who you are as a person even when you’re not working. That’s exactly why these Medium Targaryen are so famous, they have their own branding and soul attached to every article they’ve published.

Read 8 to 10 of their articles and you can see the pattern.

On top of it, the secret to their personal branding is to have a mix of personal and professional content. It’s less about who you are as a professional and more about who you are as a person. And Jessica Wildfire has the strongest vibration on this one.

Charismatic people are naturally interesting, and it is their personalities that draw others in to read and listen to them. People will avoid you if you make unreasonable demands without offering any compensation in return for their time or effort. It’s so easy to grasp.

This is why a good-looking guy like me always ends up with the most attractive woman in the pub.

ha ha

Conclusion.

Once you become passionate about something, whatever it is, make that passion what you speak about loudly and let your personality shine through all that you do.

Forget about left or right-wing narratives, I guess you can taste the spiciness of their political views in their articles. At the end of the day, it’s not wrong to keep your thoughts to yourself.

Passion is linked with emotion; emotion pushes you toward courage; courage builds your strategy; strategy requires discipline; and discipline helped you stay.

Literature is where freedom of speech begins anyway.

But keep in mind that for most people social media is an escape from their everyday life. If you want to grow your influence, give your readers or audience real and raw emotion no matter how many people are reading.

Lastly, intimate stories about the content that a possible reader is seeing to make them feel connected to you and your content.