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Why I Write On Medium
Several years years ago, when I had a full time job at an art gallery and never dreamed of getting paid to be a writer, I began a Wordpress blog. I wrote about whatever I felt like writing about and my blog developed a modest following. I never imagined that anyone would pay me to analyze the triple goddess symbolism in The Golden Girls, for instance, or speculate on the uncanny geometric properties of the Ghent Altarpiece, but that wasn’t the point. These were things I was thinking about, and I wanted to have a way to share those ideas with anyone who was interested.
When I left my gallery job in order to focus on my own creative projects, I quickly realized that as much as it pained me to do so, I had to find ways to make money from my writing. So I began to take paid writing gigs. I worked as a content strategist for a tech startup. I wrote freelance art reviews for a variety of local and national outlets. I also started writing music reviews and features for my favorite music magazine, something I still do on a regular basis. Every once in a while, however, I would still have an idea that didn’t seem to fit within the parameters of any of the publications that would pay me for my writing. I had learned about Medium through my startup job, and I liked that it had a system for recommending my writing to people I couldn’t necessarily reach through my social media profiles alone.
