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Don’t Have Time to Write Every Day? Try This
Write shorter. Much shorter.
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Meet Jay Shaw Author of Sci-Fi, Paranormal, and Contemporary, Romances
Today I am excited to share an interview with author Jay Shaw. Jay offers some great advice to help authors and bloggers to improve their writing and promote their work. My questions are in bold, Jay's follow in plain text About Jay Shaw Jay lives in New Zealand, where she raises her two teenagers. She loves photography, and has a partiality for tall, dark-haired, military men in thigh holsters and combat boots. But isn’t opposed to the occasional shirtless cowboy in tight denim. She spends her days having lunch with her most-excellent author friends, marathoning Netflix, and lurking on Facebook
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Can we all please stop using Medium now?
Medium is cancer. A trojan horse. It’s Facebook. But for blogging. A walled garden behind which all your favourite content lives, and yet you are forced to login via their shitty UI, or worse still pay for access. When did reading stuff on the web become pay to play? I’ll tell you when.
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The Rookie and the Pro: Different Ways to Succeed on Medium
A Q & A with Shannon Ashley and Shaunta Grimes, two top Partner Program writers.
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10 Tips To Help You Become A Much Better Writer
I’ve been writing, and making a career of it, for well over a decade now. I’ve done all kinds of writing, from SEO copy to personal essays to novels. Over the years, I’ve collected a bunch of best-practice tips. Here they are.
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5 Tips To Find Your Writing Voice
I didn’t want to be a writer. I loved reading and had read four digits’ worth of books by the time I was 10. I loved making stuff up and writing it down, especially if it would make people happy. But I didn’t believe I could actually be a writer. Not because I couldn’t express myself, but because I’d end up with my commas in the wrong place. I was wrong.
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How Medium’s Curation, Distribution and Paywall Systems Work for Writers
A detailed look at how Medium works, and some of the recent changes we’ve made.
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Why Are We Competing With Newspapers on Medium?
How does this make sense? The Washington Post has its own actual newspaper. It’s not my fault that print media is growing more obsolete every day. I wish it wasn’t because I like newspapers, but that’s technology. Not only do they have their own publishing arm, but they have their own website. A website which only lets you see a couple stories a month before you have to pay to look at them.
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Medium is Ruining Publications
Earlier this week Medium made a drastic change that directly impacts publications like ours, like HackerNoon, FreeCodeCamp, and BeYourself. These publications are based on curating content from 100s if not 1000s of writers to provide their communities with the content they are looking for on a daily basis. Their goal is to amplify the voices of everyday people to inform, teach, and support their readers.
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INSIDE MEDIUM'S MELTDOWN: How an idealistic Silicon Valley founder raised $134 million to change journalism, then crashed into reality
Four days into 2017, Medium's employees came to work and were told that one-third of them, 50 people, were fired. They were shocked. Their adored boss, billionaire CEO Ev Williams, best known as the cofounder of Twitter, seemed to care so deeply for each of them. But he told the world about the layoff in a blog post even before all the people who lost their jobs were informed, a former employee tells Business Insider.
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