How Top Medium Earners Format Their Stories
A guide to Medium formatting.
I spend a fair amount of time hanging out on Facebook groups for Medium writers, and talking to Ninja Writers about posting here. I see the same questions come up over and over — questions about how to format posts to make them look nice.
This guide will answer those questions. Let’s start at the top.
Titles
When it comes to curation, Medium editors favor a clear, concise title written in title case. Avoid anything click-baity. It’s enough to keep your post from being curated and distributed. It also doesn’t fit the platform very well.
Title case means that most words are capitalized and there is no end period. (You may have an end question mark or exclamation point, however.) This website will help you format your titles in title case.
This is a click-baity title that I actually used recently (I suck at titles!):
One Perfect Piece of Advice That Really Works (If You Take It)
