Having your own publication on Medium is fantastic for building your own readership. But don’t forget about your profile’s subscribers.
I may be the last person to notice a feature that Medium offers us, but I don’t believe it. I think many of you don’t realize that you are giving away views and reads when you post articles directly to your publication.
The newsletter feature of publications
If you run your own publication on Medium, you’re almost certainly familiar with this feature. For some time now, it has been possible to send a newsletter directly to the email inbox of the publication’s followers.
This feature makes it much easier for us authors to build up an extensive email list for our stories quickly. Readers no…
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Compensation is becoming more and more intransparent, and Medium recommendation algorithm is still a disaster.
Since August, I don’t write as regularly as before. Since I last got a bonus in July and then Medium discontinued this model, I haven’t seen any reason to make a special effort.
I had hoped to be considered in the Fellowship program that followed, but that hope was dashed. Apparently, the numbers that had previously brought me a bonus each time were not enough.
Because I had repeatedly managed in the past to get into the exclusive circle of those who make more than $100 a month on Medium by my own efforts, I feel that Medium treated me…
In nine years as a self-publisher, I have gained a lot of experience. Today, I make my living from writing and try to let new authors benefit from my experiences. So here comes a list of my most helpful articles on writing and self-publishing.
Mohamed Atta, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Marwan al-Shehh lived just a few miles from our home while they planned the largest terrorist attack in history. Twenty years later, I went there for the first time.
There are places that you can still see their historical significance decades or even millennia later. The memorial site of the former Auschwitz death camp is still oppressive and terrifying more than seventy years after the end of the Second World War. St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome still breathes the history of millennia and leaves visitors awestruck.
These are places that humanity consciously wants to remember. So millions are invested in keeping them in good shape and in keeping them alive for posterity.
But other places of historical significance get no such attention. Often, the reason is that adequate remembrance…
If you can remember every story you’ve ever written, you’re not writing enough.
Sometimes readers write to tell me how much they enjoyed one or another of my books. That always makes me very happy, of course. But then I often get questions about the plot of that book or about where I researched specific facts about the story. So then it becomes less funny for me.
I have to find the book in question on my Kindle and read it again to answer such questions. The fact is, I forget the plot of my books as soon as I publish them. …
Your success comes not in the limelight but in solitude.
It is half-past five in the morning. It’s dark and cold outside, and most people are still asleep. But you put on your running shoes, step outside the door, and set out for the first time in years to run a short training lap. You’ve had enough of your body getting weaker and weaker and feeling more and more powerless. So starting today, you do something for yourself.
You live alone and come home from work in the evening exhausted. Your job is anything but secure, and you wouldn’t necessarily invite your boss to dinner at your house. You could…
If hard thinking doesn’t help, stop doing it.
Today was another day for me that started well but then quickly went down the drain. I woke up well-rested, had a good breakfast, and got to work.
After that, I worked on a short story. It went pretty well for two hours, but then I got bogged down. Finally, I started to get bored with the work. So I decided to write an article instead and develop the first idea for a new novel.
Actually, I only had the short story on my mind today, so I was left without a plan when I wanted to write an article…
Some of my colleagues are under massive attack by fake reviews.
It started about three weeks ago when a mystery author I’m friends with put out a call for help on Facebook. After publishing a new novel that quickly rose to the top 100 of the German Kindle charts, she suddenly started getting dozens of anonymous one-star reviews every day.
Some commenters said this was normal, as the new ability to leave reviews without text encouraged readers to leave reviews. In addition, they argued that disappointed readers are more likely to make their opinions known.
At first, I was inclined to agree with this reasoning, but then I looked more closely.
Concerted actions
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Young people lack a realistic perspective of time.
Especially when we are young, we misjudge periods of time. As a result, on the one hand, we put off important projects for too long, and on the other hand, we quickly become impatient when results do not come immediately.
I am young and still have so much time
This is basically true. Being young is a privilege. Because there is still a lot of life ahead of us, we can afford to try things out and even wander down the wrong paths for a while. …
René Junge
Thriller-author from Hamburg, Germany. Sold over 200.000 E-Books. get informed about new articles: http://bit.ly/ReneJunge
