Dear Medium, Am I Doing This Right?
Trying to find my happy medium on this platform and my place in the world.
Ya’ll I read a lot.
I suppose those words are not shocking when they come from someone trying to make a living by writing.
I love to read what other people are thinking about. That is one of the many things I find so great about the Medium platform. I can see the inside of some of ya’lls brains when I read your work. I’ve been obsessed with the idea of truly knowing how other people see the world since I was a small child (more on that another time).
I can easily spend double or triple the amount of time reading as I say I’m going to spend writing. I do love to write, don’t get me wrong, but my profile’s selection of published stories doesn’t show much of that.
Do you see? Four out of the five months since I joined the platform, I’ve published one meager story a month. My best month? Yeah, that was a whopping two stories.
What this screenshot doesn’t show are the drafts. I’ve easily started twice this number. Half-written pieces are saved on my computer hard drive, in…
