Two Items Affect Medium Money
They were suggested to me. I blew it already.
These are the plans I made yesterday, about a new direction for my stories. I woke in the middle of the night after my generally apprehensive feelings turned into truly gruesome nightmares.
1. Some will not be published behind the paywall.
2. Some will be published on my profile.
3. I will try to leave my sense of humor in my other suit and offer meatier topics.
I intend to watch these new components and offer some deeply analytical and meaningful observations about the results.
Number One
Number one, the paywall stuff, might take a couple of days to see results. No bad dreams here yet. Slept like a baby.
Number Two
Number two, publishing my stories on my profile, or Cricket City, as some call it, I can see pretty soon if the reads are slower than publishing on a big publication, and this morning I can see there are no reads at all on my stories.
I have read articles by some writers who publish to their own profile, having fewer followers than I do. These writers showed screenshots of thousands of reads. I have also read other writers who say the most important thing to do is to get with a big publication.
Somebody may be telling me a whopper.
Or the very hand of God is reaching down and skewing their outcomes. (Pardon me please, Bill Murray.)
My cold sweat was right on the money. No reads. I deleted two stories.
Number Three
As for number three, I found I could not leave my sense of humor at home. Every day is “National Bring your Humor to Work Day.” It’s not in a pocket or a briefcase. It’s in every cell of my being. It is my niche. For me, witless would be nicheless.
So, I must apologize at my best-laid plans gang aft agley, (Pardon me please, Robert Burns,) but at least I didn’t drag it out. My dad always told me that a good general knows when to cut his losses, so that’s what I did.
Conclusion
So we have two items:
If you didn’t see my stories, well, they were the absolute best that were ever written. Shame on you for not being subscribed to home delivery as I have explained to you previously.
Or shame on me for not explaining that “following” is great, but subscription delivery is even better as well as more efficient.
If you are disappointed I am returning to my light-hearted point of view, shame on us all. It’s not like anyone will be running a risk of reading them.
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