Last month, I earned nearly $5,800 for a single post. Where I live that’s a cool million rupees, which really is as much as it sounds. How did I do it?
I don’t know.
As you can see, this was an anomaly for me. My highest earning month has been $4,000 and it fluctuates, in June I was down to $1,200. My best posts earn a few hundred dollars each. I don’t know if there’s any repeatable lesson here besides write nearly every day for a year for overnight success.
I think the secret of a successful writer is just being unsuccessful for a really long time. Unfortunately, this strategy is indistinguishable from complete failure.
What this means to me
For me at least, Medium has elevated a lonely hobby that I was pointlessly good at (blogging) into something that actually puts food on the table. To me this is crazy. I’ve been…
