5. “Medium is a beautiful space for reading and
writing—and little else. On Medium, you’re not
alone. You write beside and with other people.
Medium is not about who you are or whom you
know, but about what you have to say.
- Ev Williams
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6. Medium Partner Program
⋆ Membership paywall ($5/month)
⋆ Opt individual articles in
⋆ Medium curation
⋆ Real member engagement => payment
Time to start small...
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8. Publications
Types
● Medium run
● Externally run
● External that do
not accept
contributors (The
Atlantic, etc)
Tools
Smedian - ~650
publications to
submit to
Details
● Newsletters
● Submission
guidelines
● Time constraints
for new
contributors
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9. You Do You
Any Medium member can start a publication
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10. 3.
What Do I WANT TO say
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11. Article Ideas
What do you have?
- Your stories
- Journal entries
- Previously
published articles
What are you looking for?
Teach yourself by
researching what you are
already curious about.
What are they looking for?
Read, read, & read some more
Pick a popular publication and
create article ideas for it
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12. 4.
Don’t be a writer, just write
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13. Make it Look Goooood
Titles - You/I/We
Photos, Memes, GIFs
Formatting
Let’s Do This
Make it Happen
Asking for Edits
Google Docs
Share a Medium draft
Conference/talk driven
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17. Share!
-Facebook - to relevant
groups & pages
-Twitter - include images of
text from the article (with
captions!)
-LinkedIn - if you really want
to (or someone else does)
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18. What’s Next For You?
⋆ Failure Hot Potato
⋆ Publications: The Startup,
Better Humans
⋆ Came from journaling & wanting
to learn more about my
experience
⋆ Final edits before asking others
(gDoc style)
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⋆ What topics do you read
about?
⋆ Where do you connect most
strongly with others?
⋆ What happened recently you
were curious about?
⋆ Who can you share
thoughts and drafts with?
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19. Let’s review some concepts
COMMUNITY
Joining or starting a publication
Interact with other writers
STORYTELLING
Everything revolves around it
JUST KEEP WRITIN’
Track ideas
Let it flow
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START SMALL
Quality > quantity
One at a time
TEACH OR LEARN
Find what people are curious about
SHARE
Tell the world! Or at least your
great Aunt Dorothy
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Rough things happened, and my search for community and info brought me to tech disability project. I was working again… so I went for it.
Jk jk, I was damn terrified to write about this
“How Medium’s Curation, Distribution and Paywall Systems Work for Writers” by Michael Sippey https://link.medium.com/ZFgwYM5SBX
“Medium’s top 10 most followed and active publications” by The Startup https://link.medium.com/m7XvGu8QBX
Publish frequently, not just pageviews!, start small
“Medium’s top 10 most followed and active publications” by The Startup https://link.medium.com/m7XvGu8QBX
Medium, external, small specialized, each have their ow
*Finding where to write
Outside publications - will all have their own submission guidelines
-some are run by Medium
-Time deadlines
Submission tools - smedian
Re-publish
Journals
Stories not clickbait
Teaching - what are you looking for?
Read! Listen to what people are looking for
Pick a publication, then an idea for it
https://writingcooperative.com/write-to-learn-not-just-to-communicate-b881fe51acba
Write about writing
Titles - you/I
Make it pretty - photos
Asking for edits - google docs, sharing the medium draft
Talk driven writing
https://medium.com/swlh/16-tricks-to-turn-your-medium-drafts-into-beautiful-looking-stories-e828e035b5da
Share! This can be the best or worst part depending on how you feel
Share pictures of text on twitter, make sure to copy text into the image description
Gift of grey spaces - 111 facebook shares
Look - my heads cut off
