I will soon be celebrating my first year as a writer on Medium. This is an event that will go largely unnoticed as my family and the majority of those around me on a daily basis are not “readers”. There are a few close friends that, like me, recognize this as a milestone (and you know who you are). For them, I am eternally grateful.
Then there are the 769 Medium followers for whom I am immensely grateful as well. I hope this article motivates those of you who have just joined or have less than a year on the platform to stick with it as I have.
- The Sound of Healing — 216 Reads
It was a complete surprise to me that so many people would be interested in reading about this. I have attended several sound healing meditations and ceremonies in my area and really loved how I felt during and afterwards. For that reason, I decided to research the subject and found the research interesting enough to write about it. At the time, I had been a writer on Medium for 5 months and the response gave me quite a push to continue writing.
2. The Benefits of an Edited Life — 116 Reads
This was my first story about minimalism, a subject I had just started to get curious about last October — 6 months into writing on Medium. This has become one of my favorite concepts. I practice it and have since written several other stories on the subject but none have done as well as this one.
3. The Transformative Power of Struggle — 91 Reads
I wrote this in just 4 months writing on Medium. In fact, I had just gone through a struggle myself and, not long after, realized how it had transformed me. So many of the stories I’ve written come from incidents in my own life that I’ve had to overcome. Writing about it doesn’t just allow me to share with my Medium readers, it helps me to see the situation more objectively as well.
4. My Daily Dose of Destiny — 76 Reads
Six months into my Medium journey and I was just “putting this out there”, not expecting any readership at all. Another subject I didn’t know was so interesting to so many others. It just goes to show we are never alone. This platform has such widespread readership. It showed me that there is a place to share anything I want to write about.
5. What Makes Friday So Special? — 68 Reads
Just 2 months after writing on Medium, I was searching for ideas for articles and realized it was Friday. The phone call from my sister mentioned in the article got me thinking and off I went. I love that Medium allows me to write about whatever I choose. During this time, I was new and getting readership was not only important, it was thrilling!!! Like most of us, I still love Fridays and I love that we know more about it now.
So there you have it. I am NOT, by any means of the imagination, what anyone would call a “heavy hitter” on Medium. I don’t even have a 1K following yet — but I’m working on it. I can honestly say that I’ve had a year of discovery, learning, sharing and massive transformation with what I’ve learned and thoroughly enjoyed by writing.
I’m in it, as they say, for the long haul. If you’re a beginning writer, this is a very exciting time for you. I know because it still is for me.
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