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For My Followers: Why I’m Reducing My Presence on Medium
And where to find my in-depth articles from now on
I should probably have written this a year ago.
Five years ago I started writing on Medium. To this day I am not quite sure why; nor why I began by writing about rockets. Before that I wrote about photography, a topic on which I occasionally still do write, and still enjoy.
Yet somehow I started writing. At first, like everyone, I got little response. Seventeen people read my first article, a little noticed piece on a then new rocket. Yet in the months that followed some of my articles grew popular, and Medium even paid me a decent amount for them.
That gave me the confidence and motivation to keep going. Writing, it must be said, is hard. Exposing a piece to public scrutiny can be a galling, humbling experience, especially for a new writer. Yet the early successes I had on Medium inspired me to keep going, and gave me something to focus on as COVID-19 shut down the rest of my world.
Since then, I’ve been regularly recognised as one of the top writers on Medium, something I’m proud of. I’ve had my work…
