My Journey to 1K Medium Followers

When inspiration invites you, say “yes”…

I’ve mentioned in earlier stories that writing is my lifelong dream and it did, in fact, take nerves of steel and a quarantine for me to submit the first piece for publication on Medium for the first time in April 2020. Inspiration invited me to do this and I grabbed it’s hand like Thelma & Louise and said “yea, let’s do this” and we drove off that cliff together.

From what I’ve read about the experiences of other writers on the Medium platform, I’m slow to get here. It hasn’t taken other writers quite this long to get to this level of followers but I had to work at my own pace.

I will admit, it has taken a lot of work and courage for me. At the same time, it has been a huge learning and healing experience to research the topics I’ve written about and set the research to words that would make sense to other people. If it has inspired at least one person — that would be more than enough for me.

I’ve wanted to write since I first held a book in my hands at a very young age — not long after I realized I existed on Earth as a physical entity. Many times throughout my life, creativity knocked at my door and, many times I had to say “sorry, I just can’t get my act together right now. Come back later.”

So you can say I got started at this game on the late side but when I sit down in front of the computer to write something, I don’t feel like a 60+ year old, I feel like a woman with something to say.

My goal is to write to inspire, entertain and educate my readers.These days I have to say that writing is where I am the most authentic version of myself.

I haven’t suffered from writer’s block. I don’t even know what that is. I write like I talk and I can say for sure I’ve never suffered from talker’s block.

I’m still hoping to get curated and always working on improving my craft, but I’m infinitely grateful to the loyal followers and publications within the Medium platform who have published my work consistently and made me feel like I am doing something “real”. I can no longer say I’ve “dabbled” in writing. I now have a following of at least 1K followers on Medium — the world’s largest online publishing platform!

All I know is that, when inspiration takes you by the hand and invites you, there’s no better thing to spend your life doing than to say a resounding “yes” to that invitation.

I would like to say a special thanks to the editors in the following publications who have published my work consistently and thereby made a huge contribution to my reaching this level; Be Yourself, Heart Revolution, Illumination, World Traveler’s Blog, Loud Updates, Journal of Journeys, Data Driven Investor, An Idea (by Ingenious Piece), Be Unique, Happiness Now.