Like someone at Medium is deliberately trying to keep us off balance.

… for, is what topics will actually connect with readers. I have some basic ideas, as we all do, but the fact remains that while one piece combining history and film is my best performing thus far (with 22K views, 15K reads, and 4.4K claps), another one in the exact same vein has only 65 views. Same with music articles; they do great except when they don’t. There simply is no formula that you…
Nine Months Writing on Medium: A Look Back at a Crazy Gestational Period
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Like someone at Medium is deliberately trying to keep us off balance. Very interesting seeng your biggest hits, if only for the apparent absurdity of the algorithm.
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Dilettante, smartass, apocalypticist. ***See “Lists” for stories by genre.***
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