FROM DEPLORABLE TO DEPP

I Make No Money by Writing on Medium

But the extra benefits are incredible

Robert Bush
The Haven
Published in
3 min readNov 27, 2022

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I make no money by writing on Medium but there are undoubtedly other advantages to writing here — ones that are not obvious when you publish your first article.

This is not another ‘how I conquered Medium’ story, trust me, you need to read the following— you’re going to be shocked.

Well, I certainly was.

My first piece was published in August 2018, and it wasn’t long before my life began to change dramatically.

As a man of some years, I had reached a stage in life when the mirror was definitely no longer my friend. Things were getting regularly worse and the sight of my declining self every day was shocking. When I say gargoyle that’s not far from the truth.

But as soon as my first article was published on Medium, things began changing fast — and it wasn’t long before I became a god.

I went from pariah to Pitt, from deplorable to Depp.

I had begun to lose my hair a bit but once my second article was published on Medium, my hair began to grow fantastically and it’s now sprouting by the minute, and I have a head full of gleaming, golden locks. I’m having to tie it down it’s growing…

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Robert Bush
The Haven

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