Something Big Is Happening on Medium.com
If you haven't checked lately...you might want to look!
Hello dear readers & writers.
Many of you are, in fact, writers, and many of you are familiar with a website called Medium.com. It’s a place where a few hundred thousand talented writers gather to share ideas with the world. You can write there and earn some money for your work, but you can also be a paying reader, which helps to support the work of the writers whose work you read.
There’s also a feature where you can actually give a tip to a writer who has moved you with their story. Cool, right?
Well, I’ve been there for about 3 years now and I’ve seen some really high highs and really low lows for the writers there. Recently, Medium announced that Ev Williams (yes that Twitter guy) was stepping down as the CEO of his brainchild, Medium, and a new CEO was taking over, Tony Stubblebine.
And since Tony took the reins…BIG things are happening. My stats are WAY up. Finally, earnings are looking pretty good over there. The proof is in the payday.
This ONE story took off this week and has earned me nearly 90 bucks already.
It was published a few weeks ago, and was NOT selected for distribution on Medium’s circulation program they call “curation.” Meaning, this article’s traffic is completely organic.
It’s still growing! Check it out here: I Stopped Hiding My Fat and Men Are Suddenly Drool-y
Where else can you get this kind of traffic on your poems, your stories, or your personal essays and blogs about your life?
This story from a few years ago has earned me $332.98.
My Father Was Asked to Choose — Save the Mother or the Baby
Something both of these stories have in common is that they are personal and I wrote them quickly—straight from the heart. If you, too, want to earn some money for your stories: Here’s where you sign up for 5 bucks a month. It doesn’t take long to begin earning more than you spend to take part in this program. Full disclosure: If you join with that link, a portion of your fee will go to me each month. Don’t worry, when you are writing there, you’ll have the same opportunity to earn through people who sign up with your link!
Other pieces noteworthy of mentioning today:
Also, there’s a lot of curiosity about what I do for a living, so here are some of my professional pieces. These are the ones that pay, big time, and make my daily writer’s lifestyle a comfortable one. In fact, next week I am moving to a new apartment—35 minutes away from THE BEACH!!!
All because of hard work on pieces like these:
In LA Weekly
In The Village Voice
In OK! Magazine
Coming soon!
And there will be others! I am scheduled to take over all the promotional posts for this particular client which will put me in more than a half-dozen nationally mainstream online magazines. What an opportunity for me and my work!
Thanks for reading today and for all your support of my work as I make my place in professional blogging. One day, I hope, you’ll say you knew me when…
~ Christina M. Ward
Author | Poet | Professional Blogger