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Riding The Medium Rollercoaster For Three Years
What an exciting, maddening, joyous, disappointing, connecting, frustrating, heart-warming, obsessive, instructive, ridiculous, fun, crazy ride it has been.
I’ve been writing on Medium for three years this month. But instead of the self-promotion typically found in these “milestone” stories (including my own for my first two anniversaries), I thought I would write about the emotional journey I have experienced writing on Medium.
I should mention that I am not a writer by trade and never seriously considered it as a career. Sure, I harbored the occasional dream of becoming a writer during my first year writing here. But the past three years have confirmed what I already learned through making music. Trying to earn a living in any creative field is very difficult.
Still, I love doing creative things. And writing is creative — at least, it can be. So I had dabbled in creative writing from time to time throughout my life. And Medium is still a good place to dabble.
Ch, Ch, Ch, Changes
I moved through several stages during my Medium writing adventure — many at the same time. Perhaps you can relate. Or not. Everyone’s life (and writing) experience is…
