How I Gained 500 Medium Followers in 2 Weeks
It was much easier than I thought…
The constant slog to produce new content and entertain the masses is both a privilege and a responsibility. Any writer or artist worth their salt will tell you that every adoring fan is like a stone dropped in your pocket. While you can use those stones to throw at other people and harm your enemies, eventually the weight starts to pull your pants down and you wonder if it’s all worth it.
I’ll admit, I’ve neglected my audience on Medium, having not published in more than a year. But recently, I’ve received incontrovertible proof that I am not just missed on this platform, but that the wider world yearns for my wisdom.
It all began a little over two weeks ago.
As I checked my email for the seventeenth time, I noticed a surprising subject line: You have 33 new followers on Medium.
Back when I was devoting more time to the platform and using my foolproof build-an-audience plan (in which I followed a bunch of people every day in the hopes that some would follow me back. Seriously, I would put “follow people on Medium” on my to do list), this might not have been so strange.
But like I said, overwhelmed by the volume of content and cheerful people telling me how I…
