This IS NOT A 14 MINUTE READ if you just read my comments! My best-paying article has made me almost $700 as of today (Apr 3rd). When I say almost, I’m $0.06 short. It was a funny story published in a funny sex-positive publication for fun — Sex and Satire, by Ms. Part Time ...(More)
Tag: writing
But a question first — why aren’t you writing about sex? In 2018 I decided to see if writing for money was a thing I could do. I write at work, but most of that is technical, bureaucratic, and boring. I’ve been complimented on it, though, so I always wondered if I could. ...(More)
ADHD takes something away every time it gives you a gift I was diagnosed with ADHD in my forties, but I always knew something was wrong with me. Having the diagnosis was a relief, and so is being medicated for it, but some elements still linger. What is gone is the ...(More)
Ugly looking stories have to be pretty damn good to get read There are two elements to every story — How they are told, and What they are about Good storytellers can make a boring story interesting by how they tell it. Bad storytellers can make interesting stories boring the same ...(More)
Willy G; you are my 900th Follower Followers and views are vanity metrics because they don’t do much more than make us feel good. But feeling good is sometimes all we need, isn’t it? I’d never thought that I would get more than a few hundred followers, mostly because my niche ...(More)
Doing these four things will set you up for an easy* writing experience To build a workable template, follow these steps and make notes as you go: Step 1 — Learn the Rules Find and learn the environmental, platform, and niche ‘rules’ and standard practices. On Medium, the publication style guides are 95% ...(More)
Templating the template to success When I found Medium in May 2020, I immediately saw the opportunity. To improve my storytelling technique, what better place to do that than in a live environment with immediate feedback? As a nameless, faceless bureaucrat, my creativity was on life support. Years of stiff and ...(More)
Because I’m a boring geek who likes boring geeky things He has this fantasy about being sucked while fully clothed by a woman on her knees, who is also fully clothed. It’s kind of like an office sex fantasy where the boss asks him if she can suck him off in ...(More)