If You Want Only a Few Views on Medium, Here’s What You Should Write About

Or…How to Toil in Obscurity as a Medium Writer

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If you want to know how to be an obscure, unpopular writer who gets little attention and very few views…

I’m your guy!

I started on this platform in 2018. Since then, I’ve written 584 published pieces (585 counting this one). Six years and 580 plus articles (or “stories”) later and I’ve got a grand total of 1,464 followers.

Now, I’m super grateful to all 1,464 of those followers. But let’s be honest. There have been many Medium writers who started much later than I did, who have written much less, and who have many more followers.

Most of my articles get very few views. And they earn very little money.

Now, I don’t do this Medium thing primarily for the money. If I did, I would have stopped writing on here a long time ago, because…yeah…it’s been pretty much a bust for me on the $$$ front.

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the greatest writer. I’m a work in progress. I’m learning. But…

I look around and see other Medium writers who aren’t exactly Stephen King or Shakespeare either, and they are doing quite well. (Yes, I know King and Shakespeare…