The 1 Thing You Must Be on the Medium Platform

No Excuses. No Hard Luck Stories!

Mark Boyle
Word Garden
Published in
2 min readSep 5, 2024

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The 1 Thing You Must Be on the Medium Platform
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When you set out on your Medium journey, it’s important to get into good habits from the word go.

This will stand you in good stead when you encounter those challenging days. The days that will test you as a writer.

The one thing you must be is original. This is the single most important ingredient to your longevity and future success.

Do you think top authors take shortcuts or copy other writers? I think not!

You may have set yourself daily or weekly writing targets, and that’s fine. But if you can’t fulfill them, then you’re going to have issues.

And we know where that can lead to ……

The 1 Thing You Must Be on the Medium Platform
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Even if you’re not the best writer or are learning to write, you must NOT take shortcuts.

Meaning?

  • Copying established writers’ work.
  • Putting someone else’s work through the sausage machine and passing it off as your own.
  • Or the new kid on the block AI. Prompting ChatGPT to write you a 500+ word article about…

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Mark Boyle
Mark Boyle

Written by Mark Boyle

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