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3 Problems I Solved With Writing on Medium
About a year ago, I began regularly writing on Medium. I didn’t know a huge amount about the platform when I made my commitment. I learned as I went along. Committing to a weekly article for Medium when my week is already full of website content writing, blogging for clients, and creating other sales and marketing assets, hasn’t always been easy.
But it has been worth it.
Fortunately, I didn’t walk into Medium with my eyes closed. I know what it takes to create a good piece of writing. Nor did I expect to get rich quick. In fact, I wasn’t sure I’d make any money writing here. What I did hope to get out of it were two things, that are just as important to me as money, if not more so.
Those two things soon became three after I signed up to the partner program.
Finding a voice
As a copywriter, I’m fairly good with words. I can adopt a number of different ‘voices’ in order to write for a wide range of clients. And that’s great, it earns me my bread and some butter too.
What it doesn’t help with is that slippery thing that writers talk about, a lot.
Voice.
Knowing what your voice is and blazing a trail with that singular style isn’t particularly helpful as a copywriter. Being adaptable and…
