Top Prolific Medium Writer’s Tips Quite Challenging Yet Effective
Tom Kuegler writes a great piece here with awesome insights about how to make it big on Medium and other blogs. I am impressed by his number of articles — 1270!
Wow, I’ve done a few over 80 on this platform in a couple of years! I’ve got quite a ways to go to catch up!
I’m also quite taken aback by some of his main blogging tips. These are certainly challenging. Yet, they will help you become a more skilled writer and should draw in more readers.
Be the contrarian.
Certainly this is a tough one as there are topics everyone likes to add their two cents on(and every two cents makes the piggy bank a little richer). But if you are able to offer a contrary or counterpoint perspective, this will help to enrich the platform’s dialogue and remind readers that any question at some level has multiple points of reference.
Share stories, not just lessons.
Ah, a wonderful expounding on traditional sage adage “show, don’t tell.” But it is hard often to come up with a story, like would anyone find interest in my story of how writing professors pushed my fellow students and me into learning how to paint pictures with words? “More nitty gritty please,” I can hear the readers say. If you share stories, another main part is to carve out just a little of the unlimited richness inherent in the story’s uniqueness.
Delete, delete, delete.
This is a super tough one because writers need to clear their throat to get their ideas down on the page and then reconstruct them in a manner that makes sure readers understand. And aren’t words the symbols that point to concepts and concepts the mental imprints carved from experienced or perceived realities? So it is understandable that words may be plentiful on a page for readers to take in and gather a lot of unique riches and insights. And is it not the case that there is always more that can be said about any given topic, question, or reality? So why not just dive into a subject and keep elaborating upon it and adding more words — whether in the introduction, body, or conclusion? On the other hand, while it is true that more can always be said about anything often many contexts, inquiries, dialogues, or studies are conducted with certain bounds in mind. “This is all we are meaning to explore for now on the subject. . .with innumerable possibilities available to revisit at a future time or countless other points to be considered beyond our scope here.” And so we must find the balance.
I, like other writers, certain need to keep practicing and applying the principle of delete, delete, delete when it is certainly necessary.
Redrafted.
This is a tough lesson because words are the gateway to concepts and experienced or perceived realities. We like words, especially since there is always more to be said about any subject or question in the world. However, inquiries, studies, investigations, or dialogues are usually conducted with boundaries in mind so that set points and insights meet a certain threshold for the scope of the project at hand. This is done with the awareness that the current work hardly scratches the surface and countless other questions, points, or explorations could be conducted beyond the current scope. So, yes, this is a tough balance.
A little better.
Certainly delete delete delete is not always necessary, or perhaps even necessary for a majority of the time. As more points and questions can always be added to any subject with multiple other whole avenues not even considered. This is a tough balancing act.
I think the supertexted version put together works best. These skills are always a work in progress, for sure.
