Writing Advice
How to Make Big Money on Medium
How I went from pennies to thousands
I’m still working out the kinks, but one thing is certain. I need to write to make money. I need to write a lot. It’s like poker. I’m not going to win on the first hand. And that’s not what the game is about anyway. The game is about showing up, writing, and reading. You gotta play the game to win the game. Tourists don’t get rich on Medium. You gotta move in.
I’ve written a few hundred essays so far and two have made 99% of my Medium money.
The other essays are steady low paying workers, but they matter too. Every story that I’ve written helps me build my writing chops. Every story has a chance to become my cash cow. But, if I’m not writing, I’m not earning. And if I think I know which story is going big, I’m always wrong. It’s not about what I connect with. It’s about what my readers connect with.
How many times do we write something great and we know it’s great, but it’s totally overlooked by curators, readers, clappers, responders? It’s a bummer, but trust me, we learned…
