Why it is NOT worth writing for money (in Medium if you’re living in India)

Sakthitharan S
Indian Writer Hacks
4 min readMay 18, 2023

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Medium indeed is the best platform for writers and readers. Here we only going to focus on the potential of it to earn some decent money by writing.

From the outlook, everyone can earn from it by joining Medium Partner Program — if they can write (and if people want to read it). It is different when you actually try to.

Please read my previous article (linked below) if you haven’t. The huge response and appreciation to the below article made me write this follow-up article.

Why do you want to write in Medium?

To earn money. dot.

How much money?

🤔 hmm. some decent money…

How much?

maybe a $1000? hmm… $500?… hmm… $100 per month?

Do you know how much effort and time need to make it happen?

well yeah…

That was the discussion, in a nutshell, I had with many people who aspire to be a writer on Medium (and earn a living out of it).

Let us see some facts… According to this article and this one.

Some important points you should…

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