THEY SAY 100 IS THE MAGIC NUMBER

My thoughts on writing 100 articles on Medium

I wrote 100 articles on the medium and this is 101st. I have around 100 readers on the platform.

I am happy with the way it is going.

Seasoned writers on Medium say that 100 is the magic number, in terms of posts and terms of readership.

I don’t know if there is any magic but it certainly has a cause and effect.

Writers have written 3000 articles on this Platform, I will not complain on my 101st about, traffic, traction and exposure.

That is not the primary goal, but not excluded either.

The audience is part of any creative work, and more than anything creator craves patrons.

I started writing on medium to digitise my writing, to be frank.

I was writing every day in my notebook. I just changed that habit of writing online.

Moreover, when I read the guides and courses on how to use Medium, it largely emphasised that Medium has a built-in audience and what it can do for writers.

Today I don’t want to talk about what Medium can give, but about what I/we can give to the platform.

To be a contributing member of the community, and reciprocate the benefits and opportunity that Medium enables for writers.

Burning the ships

I don’t have one leg on my self-hosted blog and one on the medium.

I don’t post somewhere and repurpose it for the medium.

It not only feels spammy but also speaks a lot about how much you trust the platform you consistently post on.

I am giving 100% of my trust and energy to Medium.

I have burned all the ships. I don’t write these personal blogs on any other platform.

After a long search, I have found peace with Medium. I am in for a long-term game. And I only hope and pray that Medium reciprocates the same.

What I am writing on the platform, and what I will write in the future would be my life’s work.

For me to reflect on, and for others to find inspiration on their path.

I will run an extra mile

Although I hope for monetary gains from the Medium platform, The nature of my relationship is not purely transactional.

The intention to earn it to invest in resources that can help me bring attention to my work and the platform.

I would rather see myself in a position where I can contribute and grow myself and the platform at the same time.

Less about how much traffic Medium brings to my writings and more about how much traffic I can get for my Medium blog.

I bear the responsibility of bringing traffic to my blog.

If Medium is taking one step to get me an audience, I will walk ten steps to promote the content on social media and other forums and platforms.

Moreover, I look forward to building a team and agency that would enable this effort; from the earnings on these blogs.

Analytics is beautiful

I like to lay in bed and see the current traffic on my website popping up on the map.

It is beautiful to see the dots representing a person from a faraway land landing on my landing pages.

I wish Medium analytics could have been more immediate and visual.

I have heard in an interview with Tony Stubblebine that Medium is working on it.

I would love to see how it shapes and rolls out.

Data is beautiful.

Although it can be interpreted as the interpreter\’s will, we cannot deny the fact that it represents people.

Their aspirations, interests and influence.

Community

Communities are sensitive.

They sense you as an individual, and they sense you as part of a collective consciousness.

The relationship with the community is not merely writer-reader.

It involves thought partnership and influence on each other.

Nonetheless, the community is an extension of the writer.

Readers are silent writers.

Writers seek readership as much as the readers seek the writings.

This relationship may translate to monetary obligations but it transcends to togetherness.

A sense of belonging for readers and writers. I feel this sense of belonging towards Medium.

Quality

This word got me thinking about my writing when I read it in Buster Benson — October updates.

It urges us to reflect on the work we do as a writer.

It is always possible to improve a bit every time you write on the platform, regardless of what genre you write in (or not).

There is history and evolution attached to the process of writing.

There are signs and symbols that we, as humans recognise and acknowledge.

An anchor that keeps us on the same page.

Said so, there is scope to grow on the foundations of what is considered to be a quality in writing.

Two painters might paint a board red, the same colours but their strokes will always differ.

Hence, I assume that Medium speaks about the quality from the editorial point of view.

This is fair, the text should be easy to read with no grammar mistakes, and credits should be given where due.

But the nature of writing can and will differ from person to person. And the definition of quality in general might as well have different connotations.

Moreover, we are facing a huge wave of AI generative content. It might do something interesting to writing like photography did to painting.

In any case, Humans are an integral part of the experience, and I respect the Medium\’s stand to stay human-centric.

I will use the guidelines as a blueprint and let my writing unfold organically.

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