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I Love it When My Readers Really Get Me!

Did you know your readers can inspire you to write stories you never even thought about?

Every single month, the Medium website publishes more than a million stories from us writers who show up on a regular basis.

Among those stories, are hundreds that I’ve written and published myself, mostly about writing on Medium.

The fact that Medium happens to be my writing niche, is obvious, based on the bulk of my stories being devoted to talking about the platform, as I recently divulged in a related story.

By now, it’s fairly obvious that Medium is my niche, and many readers realize:

I write about Medium to help other members.

But not everyone may fully comprehend the fact that:

I also do it, because other members have helped me.

That’s right.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I can’t count the number of times that I’ve been inspired by another writer, to write a story on a topic I had no intentions of focusing on.

This happens often, especially when I read inspirational comments left on certain stories, that convince me that…