What Are You Licking for… I Mean Looking For?
Why do you come to Medium? What makes you keep reading? And Where else do you read?
Writing is my side hustle. It’s how I blow off steam. I love writing on Medium, and yet I hate that I can’t make it really work for me. I started writing on Medium in March of 2021 when a friend told me about a March Madness challenge. At first, I thought, no way can I publish a story every single day in March. But then I tried. It was just little fantasies I had stored up. Many of those stories have been deleted from Medium now, but I did make it through that challenge. I published every day. And I got reads. And I got good feedback. I was hooked.
Then summer of 2021 came, and so did Medium bonuses. Suddenly, I was making $1,000 a month in bonuses alone. I started thinking that maybe I could write for real. Maybe I could replace the income from my day job. Then bonuses were taken away. Also, reads seemed to be worth a little less than before. Add on that more and more erotica writers were flooding onto Medium because they’d heard there was money to be made.
I don’t begrudge all the new writers. In fact, I welcome it. I think the higher ups at Medium are probably surprised how many people find our sexy stories and start following us, looking for more. So I’m here to ask, what are you looking for? Just sexy stories? A quick read that…
