Make More Money on Medium Simplified.
Simplified.
Back to the basics, this is a dollar.
I have previously admitted on more than one occasion, that I have a brutally simple mind and a visual learning process.
But I learn better when discussing things with myself. The old adage is, when the student is ready, his alter ego teacher appears, so thanks for your patience with me and my various personalities.
In my last story, I made comments that when put formulaically, would probably say #S x #F = #R = $ where the number of stories you have published multiplied by the number of followers you have equals the number of reads you get (money).
So I decided that the best use of my efforts would be to both write more articles and gather more followers. I thought it would help crystalize my thinking to look at each of these individually.
Today I will look at the number of stories.
Story length is measured in the minutes it takes a person to read them. Which mysteriously coincides roughly with the number of minutes it takes to write them.
Sources I have read are all over the map concerning story length. I personally write what I need for the story. Most of mine come in at two or three minutes because I am not a very complex person.
Additionally, I have a case of Monkey Mind that causes me to constantly be searching for things that are shiny.
I rarely have the discipline to wrap up a story and fit it into the less than 150-word category, so that only leaves me the longer categories to use. It is what it is.
Remember the formula.
If I spent a long, torturous day or two building a longer story, I would miss the opportunity to write more in numbers. Remember the formula.
So it works out for me, that in that the 2 to the 3-minute arena there is the best chance I might produce a story to be consumed.
Some people claim the odds are better that readers would consume a story that size over the longer versions. Other writers claim 3000 words are best for Google ranking, and still others like the 1000-word mark.
They all have their justifications, but for me, I say write what can get written.
As long as the story is formatted and grammatically alright, and is fairly lucid, I’m ok with it. The more the merrier. This may be overly simplistic, but if writing my stories is not enjoyable to me, I won’t stick with it.
Next, we will look at getting more followers.
Thanks for reading!
Neither of my high school English teachers thought I would ever amount to much. Well, I showed them — now I’m a big-time writer! I can teach you how to be one too! Click HERE to grab my PDF guide on how to become a Big-Time Writer.
📌 Find more of my Stories and Back Pages here…
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Simplified.
Back to the basics, this is a dollar.
I have previously admitted on more than one occasion, that I have a brutally simple mind and a visual learning process.
But I learn better when discussing things with myself. The old adage is, when the student is ready, his alter ego teacher appears, so thanks for your patience with me and my various personalities.
In my last story, I made comments that when put formulaically, would probably say #S x #F = #R = $ where the number of stories you have published multiplied by the number of followers you have equals the number of reads you get (money).
So I decided that the best use of my efforts would be to both write more articles and gather more followers. I thought it would help crystalize my thinking to look at each of these individually.
Today I will look at the number of stories.
Story length is measured in the minutes it takes a person to read them. Which mysteriously coincides roughly with the number of minutes it takes to write them.
Sources I have read are all over the map concerning story length. I personally write what I need for the story. Most of mine come in at two or three minutes because I am not a very complex person.
Additionally, I have a case of Monkey Mind that causes me to constantly be searching for things that are shiny.
I rarely have the discipline to wrap up a story and fit it into the less than 150-word category, so that only leaves me the longer categories to use. It is what it is.
Remember the formula.
If I spent a long, torturous day or two building a longer story, I would miss the opportunity to write more in numbers. Remember the formula.
So it works out for me, that in that the 2 to the 3-minute arena there is the best chance I might produce a story to be consumed.
Some people claim the odds are better that readers would consume a story that size over the longer versions. Other writers claim 3000 words are best for Google ranking, and still others like the 1000-word mark.
They all have their justifications, but for me, I say write what can get written.
As long as the story is formatted and grammatically alright, and is fairly lucid, I’m ok with it. The more the merrier. This may be overly simplistic, but if writing my stories is not enjoyable to me, I won’t stick with it.
Next, we will look at getting more followers.
Thanks for reading!
Neither of my high school English teachers thought I would ever amount to much. Well, I showed them — now I’m a big-time writer! I can teach you how to be one too! Click HERE to grab my PDF guide on how to become a Big-Time Writer.
📌 Find more of my Stories and Back Pages here…
Not a Medium member? You can join Medium with my referral link. It’s $5 a month for access to all the stories on Medium. https://medium.com/@donmartin711/membership