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In 2022, I Became a Full-Time Medium Writer

2022: A year in review

Napoleon Beltran

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7 min readDec 27, 2022

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In 2022, I Became a Full-Time Medium Writer — Photo by Bruno Bueno:

A few more days and it’s 2023. And writing on Medium will keep on evolving, nothing worth celebrating comes easily.

So after more than two years of publishing stories almost daily, I can say that not only am I grateful that I’m still here, I actually made enough money…

Napoleon Beltran

Written by Napoleon Beltran

Writer for

ILLUMINATION

Half-century young, ex-cruise snapper turned scribe. Dog-dad to Phi Phi & Crocker. Manila born, 80 countries richer, Universe speck. Still can't find my glasses

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