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How to Write Your First Medium Article — 2 Important Steps for Success.
The 3 minutes it takes to read this, will improve your writing forever.
1. Just start publishing
The most important thing I have learned from being a new writer on Medium is the importance of just getting something out there. Once you do that, you can see how readers respond and then analyze how it went.
A good way to do this is to challenge yourself to write 10 articles in 10 days. It doesn’t matter if they’re perfect, it matters that you have different topics and article styles that you’ve experimented with at the end of 10 days. You must press publish, don’t just let it sit in your drafts folder for months.
Why this works: When you don’t publish, you will have no new information to learn and grow from. You will have an incredible amount of data from 30 published articles, even if they only get a few views. Here is how to analyze it.
2. Find a ‘mentor article’ to learn from
A ‘mentor article’ is an article that is already written about your topic that is successful. For instance, if the topic you write about is fitness, look for a successful fitness article. Obviously do not copy this article, just copy the…
