A BALANCED VIEW
The stings of being boosted and different ideas
An enormous dialogue amongst writers lately is whether or not to stay with Medium. There are all the time choices. Substack often makes it into the dialog as a doable alternative. There are others like Patreon. In fact, writers aren’t restricted to 1 alternative. I write for 2 — Medium and Substack.
However extra attention-grabbing to me than the alternatives we face is how frequent it’s for writers to really feel pessimistic in regards to the alternatives inside Medium. It feels sudden and pronounced. Right here is my speculation as to why there’s a lack of religion within the promise of Medium, which is partially knowledgeable by my very own private expertise.
By the way in which, I haven’t actually misplaced religion, however I needed to have a big dialog with myself and, in some methods, modify my expectations.
My speculation
I joined Medium 5 years in the past as a result of I needed to be in a neighborhood of writers. I needed to jot down extra, be taught from others, discover some good pubs, and earn the respect of its editors.
Within the race between the tortoise and the hare, I’m the tortoise. I didn’t obtain lightning pace in direction of my Medium targets. If I had a motto, it might have been, “Gradual and regular wins…