4 months on Medium, 140 stories, $1273.

Keeping it real and breaking down the details

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Seasoned writers love to make fun of this genre of Medium story. Here is exactly how much money I made and how. But I love them and click almost every time.

Why? Because I am always trying to answer the following questions for myself:

• Am I wasting my time writing here?
• Is success possible for ordinary people?
• What do I consider success anyway?
• What is a realistic amount to plug into my daydreams of raking in the bucks?
• How can I make myself feel good about making more money faster than someone else?
• How can I make myself feel lousy about making less money than someone who started later than me?

Note that I didn’t say I thought these questions were all helpful.

I’m throwing my hat in the ring to analyze my earnings on Medium after 4 months and ten days. My theory is that if I would want to read this kind of story it is worth writing because one of the important things my four-plus months here have taught me is I am not the typical Medium reader but neither is anyone else.

There is a huge pool of readers here and while my reading and writing…