A Big Change
For me, for you, and for this publication’s future.
Today, Dear Reader, I was due to publish my review of the fourth annual issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s already written and edited, but reading it, and thinking about my next review — which would have covered ASM #53–56 — reality came crashing down. Hard.
I… don’t want to do this anymore. Write reviews of ASM, that is.
But that doesn’t mean this publication has to disappear.
When I log onto Medium for the day, I always read other writers’ work before I write my own (typically limiting myself to five articles so I don’t spend all day reading and none of it writing). Because what would writers be without one another?
Well, this morning was no different. I got up, had breakfast, took care of a few things, and sat down to read some Medium pieces before getting around to editing my ASM Annual #4 review. I read about the ongoing protests in Iran. I read about ways water might be harvested from the atmosphere. I read about how the future of self-driving cars might hinge on the history of self-operating elevators. I read why publishing consistently isn’t necessarily the best thing writers can do.
I capped it all off with a piece by the lovely Michelle Teheux titled “So You Think Medium Doesn’t Pay Writers Enough”. I can only claim to have read…
