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Medium Articles Can’t Teach You How to Earn Money from Writing Medium Articles
Trust Me, I’ve Read a Bunch of Them
If you scroll through your Medium Front Page on any given day, and you write for Medium, you’ll no doubt have a reading recommendation for at least a handful of recs for how to make more money writing for Medium. I’ve now just started to laugh at these.
I laugh because there are dozens of writers (like myself) who copy and re-write the same stuff about how to get pushed up, curated, re-listed, and make more money on the site.
Good on ya!
It’s a clever thing, and maybe this article even fits into that space, although I am not trying to do that, I’m just killing some time on a Sunday afternoon because I’m stuck inside thanks to COVID-19 and I’m listening to Family Guy in the background because I have a college-age kid stuck at home. *yawn*
Each of the articles that someone writes about how to make more money writing for Medium (at least all the one’s I’ve read) follows the same basic set of recommendations, but shuffles the order:
Write Daily, even if you’re stuck. Find a good publication and keep submitting. Clap for others as often as you can (Does this mean you should clap even if their material sucks or is badly…
