How Easy It Is to Write On Medium and How to Make Your Writing Better
In short, very
You can open up a document and start typing a 5 page essay of how you went on a trip across the country only because your friend insisted of you going, Or you can type right into the application itself and hit that publish button. Now I can’t tell if just anyone can write.
When I began to write here I completed all the tasks to get money from my writing. So maybe you have a different experience than what I had, but the writing is still the same.
The trouble usually lies when applying for a publication or doing the actually writing.
Maybe you believe that you don’t know how to write so you either write nonsense or a short memoir of your life, and you can do that. But what most people want to learn is not how easy it is to write, but rather how to make money from it.
You hear stories of how writers on medium spent months to even years writing on medium until one day out of a sudden, you have a burst of viewers.
This can usually mean that you applied to a publication or that they used a link for your writing.
You can als write on your own website, post on that five year old wordpress account or maybe on tumbler or wherever else you can write. But there are so little places you can earn money from doing so.
Medium is such a place
But much like writing a blog, you need time and a certain amount of skill to get the needle pointing the right direction.
You’ll usually spend more time writing than making money from it, unless you get your ass very lucky and somehow your post gets shared, and thousands of people see it.
This is usually after countless weeks or even years of trial and error of writing and gaining momentum or submitting posts to that old publication you didn’t know you were in.
So what are the next steps?
You write like hell.
Write everyday and practice. Even if it’s just for an hour each day (or less). Post something and even try submitting it into a publication.
You will get better overtime and you will get a feel to how to “actually” write an article or post.
Beware this. It’s true what they say, The more you write, the more chances of success you have.
I’ve seen posts on medium written half a year ago or even longer than that and I bet they didn’t get seen until people started searching them up. Like the ones about working at home.
By this I can mean that you can try to find trends but eventually if you write enough, you’ll gain Momentum. You’ll gain followers, some that will keep reading your writing, and some of those that will share it.
Any additional tips and tricks?
Have an amazing title.
The titles I usually see on the front page of my medium account are some with weirdly long but not that long titles. Ex. “How I made my first 100,000 view from writing in 3 months.”
Use bolds and spaces to empathize your writing
When I mean bolds, I also mean using bigger titles but that’s for another tip. Bolds bring out items that the reader might think are important or items that You want the reader to see.
Using those spaces that go under a paragraph or section allows two different ideas to maintain connected throughout the post but stay apart when reading.
Make your points clear
Make it big and visible. Such as using bold or even using larger texts to get your readers attention. Sometimes readers don’t want to read a 13 minute story so they skip through it looking for the main points.
Make it easier for them/ the rest of us by having your points clearly bolded on the side.
Use links to other websites including yours if you have one. (or articles)
Tittle “How ‘I’ Did this…”
This is another one for the title. When you write how-to’s, most readers will probably skip it, because even though they want to know how to do something, they can probably find someone else who says things the same way.
Using “How I do this”, gives the reader the feeling that what you do may be different from that other guy that he read 5 minutes ago. And surly, you will have something different to say.
You can write a simple 1 minute article or post that old paper you haven’t let see the light of day, or that old post you have about that time you traveled across the country pr that time you went to mexico and your drunk father lent you the steering wheel when you were 14.
Most of the tips mentioned above are meant for non-fiction writers but some can be used for fiction. Like having an good title/subtitle.
The author Rick Riordan uses numbers for chapter titles but adds short snippets of riddles or phrases for the coming chapter.
With that, I hope you can write better posts and I hope to see you all soon!
