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I Was A Better Writer When I Didn’t Know How to Write
In some ways, my first stories on Medium were a lot better.
4 min readJul 12, 2021
June 30th marked my one-year anniversary of joining the Medium Partner Program. And with that, inevitably lead to a lot of reflection on my progress.
For 6 of those 12 months, I have been able to break that top 6% of writers that earned $100+ with some relative ease. And from looking at my stats, it’s clear the months I made less than a hundred bucks were the months I hardly wrote anything.
However, I owe a lot of my progress to my first few months of blogging. I was an enthusiastic well-oiled machine. In my first full month (July 2020) I wrote 11 stories and even though I was still grasping the proper formatting for online writing, the content itself just felt different from what I make now.
These were some of my favorites:
