Goodbye! Medium Will Remove Meta Stories From The Paywall

No stories about writing on Medium anymore

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If you’ve been following me for a while, you might know that I started my Medium blog in December 2020 — shortly after giving birth to my baby.

I wrote about:

• Being a new mom
• My monster-in-law
• Family life
• Juggling work and family
• Nearly getting divorced (or becoming an alcoholic) during the pandemic
• Toxic relationships
• Lessons I’ve learned

That’s how it all started.

Then, one day, I got my first bonus payment as a Top 1000 writer on the platform. I was so convinced it was a mistake that I wrote about it.

Instead of $50, Medium wanted to pay me $500?!

It was absolutely insane. I showed the email to my husband, and he couldn’t believe it either. So, I did some research and discovered it was a bonus payment.

90% of writers on Medium didn’t even know about this.

And that moment was the birth of my meta stories about Medium.

With my background in communications, I quickly realized there was so much…