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I made 67 cents on Medium in June
Honestly, It’s the most I’ve made in months.
I want to start off by saying I was not slaving away on Medium in order to get a 67 cents payout. I joined Medium in November of 2020 after years of putting it off. Within my first week, I became a writer for a publication and was published by them almost immediately. I wish I could say my writing took off but that would be a lie.
I gave up rather quickly.
When I say I gave up, I don’t mean I flung my laptop and declared I’d never write on Medium again. I simply stopped writing. Life, children, and my own procrastination led me to ignore my Medium account.
Sure, I read stories and commented on posts for a while but then the site became a distant memory. I missed it but made no real effort to apply myself.
I wrote so many posts then abandoned them in my drafts. I focused way too much on creating content that fit certain publications rather than writing from my heart and finding a publication that fit my work. Truthfully, I could have just skipped worrying about pubs altogether and publish my post without one.
Comparison killed my willpower
Like I said before, I was still reading posts. Medium always sent me articles to read…
