To be seen or not seen — that’s the question!

I Want to Succeed With My Writing on Medium!

Why has it to be so difficult?

Øivind H. Solheim - the Novel Author
The Startup
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6 min readMar 15, 2019

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To be seen or not seen — that’s the question!

This is a truth that goes for medium.com — as well as for a huge number of other stages where people present themselves and what they want to sell.

In fact, Medium is a channel where one can succeed in many ways:

  • One can succeed in a very limited way, and although have the feeling that what I do is meaningful. At least for a little while!
  • Or one can have a great success, that might last for a good while.

There are, when it comes to success (measured in claps) — roughly spoken — threee kinds of writers on Medium:

1. Writers who write and publish once or a few times a week.

These writers get 2, 3 or 4 fans for most of their stories, and less than 150 claps. I believe that these writers in most cases can earn approximately the cost of their Medium membership, $5 a month.

That’s decent, and it shows that Medium is a fair and interesting channel for everyone who wants to write and publish serious stuff…

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Øivind H. Solheim - the Novel Author
The Startup

New novel: The Man Who Stopped Aging, Amazon Kindle. Love story & intellectual investigation: Can we extend human life to 100 or 110? www.oivindhsolheim.com/