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What 51 Boosts Have Taught Me About Writing
Find your niche, your voice, your joy and structures that work for you
From the bottom end of “medium”
For at least a month after the Boost program kicked in, I had no idea what those spermy, squiggly images meant. Nor did I care. After two years of writing on Medium, I wasn’t exactly setting the platform on fire.
I felt like I should hand write personal thank you notes to my few readers for standing between me and the goose egg earnings that plagued me. I salivated at writers’ proclamations of viral successes with the first their first posts. It was demoralizing to read the wisdom of one big shot, only to see it countered by another.
I loved to write, but over time I was discouraged by the outcome of my writing. A purist would say, “Screw the outcomes! We should write for our own satisfaction.” But if that is true, why not just sit in a closet, with paper, pen and a shredder?
To learn that our words connect to strangers is a powerful discovery that arrives in Followers and Clapping. But for me, the slow increase in Comments was the prelude to Boosts.
The power of boosts
- Exposure — Think of your published post as limited by a fence in your backyard. It may be a nice yard…
