You’ll never worry about what to write again Do you worry about running out of ideas to write about? I used to worry, too. I’d get up every morning, sit in front of the computer and wonder what can I say today? What will I write about? It was a struggle trying to come up with an idea day after day. …

the next step in organization In a recent article, I explained how I decided to write about themes for my daily articles, and invited other writers to adapt this method to their own niches. My Best Writing Secret and Why I Don’t Worry About Sharing It You’ll never worry about what to write againmedium.com In this continuation, I want to share more about how I get organized to write. After all of my planned theme words are written down on the calendar, the next step…

What happened to my first followers? I recently reviewed the list of my first 100 followers and was alarmed to see how many have just….quit. Like a lot of other writers, when I reached my first 100 followers on Medium, I immediately applied to the Partnership Program to see if I could earn back that monthly $5 subscription fee. …

Medium makes it so fun and rewarding to interact Warming up to a new community If I don’t know you that well, and we meet in person, I might hang back a little. I don’t consider myself a shy person, but it takes me a while to warm up to someone new — enough to talk…

But how do I find the time to do it all? Decisions, decisions… Ann Christine Tabaka asked a brilliant question recently and it’s one that so many of us are facing as well: how do you decide who to read and who to skip? She was asking for ideas and a little…

It’s more than just a time problem…. Keeping up with all the comments is a time-consuming task. I logged in to my Medium account and noticed 99+ responses waiting for my attention. Since we’re only allowed about 100 comments per day total (something that needs to be increased in my opinion) — this makes it logistically impossible to comment as…

Use your new skills to improve and refresh what you’ve already written Dust off those older articles! Taking some of your old stories or articles out of the mothballs of Medium’s closet and dusting them off can help in so many ways. You get to see how far you’ve come since you first began. Not only in style and skill, but in formatting and writing headlines. Then…

Some of us are noticing an interesting trend Is it possible the algorithm is changing again? But in a good way? The algorithm has seen a lot of changes in the past year, as has the Medium platform itself. …

It doesn’t have to be humiliating Criticism always feels negative to me. I’ve never handled criticism well. It’s possible my first critics (probably my parents) didn’t know how to give criticism properly, but criticism has always made me feel about 2 inches tall. My father used to make comments like, ‘just because someone gave you a…