I took a break from Medium for 17 months, and my platform continued growing
Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram continued to attract readers to my Medium profile while I lived my life.
Before reading, please forgive any grammatical mistakes or misplacements. It has also been 17 months since I last wrote anything (since 2022!).
Addiction to Medium, TikTok, and Instagram
My absence from Medium was not planned. I absolutely love reading and writing. Medium motivated me to write consistently and post consistently on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. I was trying to grow my visibility so that I would have an easier time possibly finding a literary agent for a young adult fiction book I was working on (subtle plug here) back in 2022.
Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted that I would become drastically obsessed with each and every mundane detail of my posts. It was turning into a poisonous addiction.
I spent several hours a night chewing my nails down to uneven, bloodied crisps while I obsessively wrote and rewrote 10 different drafts of the same article. When the article was perfected enough (or I was finally exhausted enough), I would…
