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The 4 Biggest Writing Mistakes I’ve Made on Medium
And How You Can Avoid Them
It’s not a secret. I’ve been here before. And now that I’m back, it’s obvious to me what I did wrong the first time around. These are not philosophical revelations, these are actual platform errors that you can avoid. But only if you want to.
There’s no judgment here. If you employ some of these strategies and they work for you, great! If your sole purpose here is to make money, great — some of these tips won’t matter to you. But these are basic mistakes that I made that, at the time, I thought were very smart moves. With the benefit of hindsight and time off, this is everything I did wrong writing on Medium the first time:
Quantity over Quality
In July of 2018, I wrote 53,354 words and published 39 stories on Medium.
In March of 2018, I wrote 53,014 words and published 57 stories on Medium.
In 2018, as a whole, I wrote 389,317 words and published 305 stories and 107 Series posts on Medium. Every single one of those stories was deleted when I left the platform.
At the time, I thought all of these stories were good. Looking back, it’s laughable that I even entertained that ego-driven hyperbole. I am not going to say I was publishing crap on purpose…
