What I Learned From Publishing 300 Blog Posts (280,000 Words) In 3 Years On Medium

For the past 3 years, I’ve noticed that I’ve been in three different stages creatively with my writing.

1. The ‘What The F*ck Do I Write About’ Stage?
2. The ‘I Guess I’m Just Writing for Myself’ Stage.
3. The ‘I Guess I’m Not Just Writing for Myself’ Stage.
4. The ‘I Want to Write Less’ Stage

Here’s how I’ve gotten through all of them and how I feel at this present moment (Stage 4).

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1. The ‘What The F*ck Do I Write About’ Stage?

My first blog post published on Medium was right after my trip to Montreal on July 7th in 2017.

Montreal, a Place of Solitude

Because this was my first blog, a lot of my friends encouraged me. It was also very uncontroversial, so there was little reason to be hurt by it.

People liked it.

This then turned into me writing about stuff I am actually interested in: Religion.

People didn’t like that all too much. 30 blog posts in, I wrote an Article that was my biggest hit (150 views) up until I wrote a piece about Marketing for the Year You Live In (received 5 times more views).