Settling In Medium as a Newbee

Analysis of my least-performing and highest-performing posts

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Last month was all about experiments. I didn’t expect people to read what I wrote. But lucky for me, I got 156 reads.

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For some people, it might not be enough. I’ve seen screenshots with twice as many reads. There are multiple factors involved in that:

1- People are posting more.

2- They’re posting in bigger publications.

3- They’re already part of a big reader’s group or they know editors.

Many people think that writing about writing itself gets them more reads.

For me, it’s the opposite.

I tried posting about writing, but my posts didn’t do well compared to other topics I believed in. You can see for yourself:

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Here’s What I Learnt

• People know if you put your heart into a story they respond equally well.
• If you know a story deserves to be told, it’ll do great.
• Your title and feature image says a lot about the story. Think about it.
• Don’t worry about the views all the time. Yes, views bring the earnings. But eventually one day that viewer might feel a bit sympathetic and decide to stay for thirty seconds.
• DO NOT STOP.

Here are my top-performing stories:

I Healed When I Listened to My Body

Romanticizing Rain

I Made This Mistake and Messed up My Read Ratio

You’re One Fake Smile Away from Success

I don’t know what this month will bring for me. I don’t know what I should write about. The start of the month didn’t look good but fingers crossed. See you guys around.

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