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The 30 Day Medium Experiment
The results of trying hard
30 days ago on December 16, I decided to put in a full effort on trying to be a successful Medium writer. I have been a member since Nov 1, 2018 and had been mainly a reader for a full year. I published a handful of stories, nothing more.
This was back when claps mattered. I literally made pennies on my first articles, so there was nothing that urged me to try to improve.
Two months ago in November I published a few more stories and and almost covered my Medium dues. This brought some interest.
I thought it would be nice to have Medium pay for itself, so I started looking around on Medium articles about how to make money. I spent the first two weeks of December soaking up all kinds of different views and advice from people.
I’ve seen contradictions and clearly some click bait articles. Before I would trust an article I would look at their history of publishing and the amount of claps their previous stories had acquired. Even accounting for the change of claps to reading time being the metric of making money, it was clear that a lot of these articles were made by people that were giving advice without actually having succeeded.
And there were people that were succeeding that had written articles as well. I came away with my…
