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My Biggest Success on Medium Wasn’t a Curated Post
I used to run a Medium group with over 2 thousand followers. One of the prerequisites for getting posted was that your article had been curated. I saw being curated as something worth bragging about. After all, that meant someone actually wanted to read what you wrote. By giving it that Medium stamp of approval, your article was now viable.
It took me a while to realize, however, that whether or not your article is posted on a leading publication or curated by Medium matters very little. By far my most successful post ever on Medium was one that was never curated, and never added to a publication.
Back in December of 2018, I wrote an article about why you should consider being a content creator in 2019. It wasn’t my best written work ever. It wasn’t curated. It wasn’t selected by a publication, unlike a lot of my other posts. I almost considered deleting it, or even un-listing it.
Today, however, that article has been read by thousands of people around the world. People reach out to me now all the time telling me how my work on Medium, and that post in particular, has helped inspire them to continue writing and pursue their creative endeavors.
