Are You Aspiring To Be Tim Denning or Zulie Rane?

Here is how you can make it possible

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The number of people who are unhappy with Medium is amassing into a skyscraper with each passing day. A few complaints are valid when it comes to understanding the workings of the platform, but the majority of them are about how Medium isn’t paying them as much as it does to prominent writers like Tim Denning, Zulie Rane, etc.

Everyone wants to make money on the platform, and it is one thing any writer on this platform should strive for, but writers tend to forget the other aspects. If you start writing only for money, then you will never be able to hone your craft to the next level. There is a dialogue in a Bollywood movie named 3 Idiots; it goes something like this:

Chase Excellence. Success will run after you.

- Ranchhoddas “Rancho” Shamaldas Chanchad, 3 Idiots

We writers (who are new compared to the writers above) need to understand that we need to have a portfolio of stories to share with the readers. These writers have written 500+ stories on the platform (the actual number can be much higher). And here we are with stories somewhere in mid-double digits to low triple digits.

Tim and Zulie put their blood and sweat in Medium when they started. Zulie published more than…