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
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…