Medium suggestion — Writing challenges
I am a huge fan of Medium. The community it creates, the safety to publish new ideas, the engagement from other readers and writers. It is an amazing place to start posting, to get familiar with writing, to get inspired and to read so many amazing pieces.
That being said, I think there are a few things that could be interesting to see implemented. Imagine Medium, Medium Creators, Medium Staff, and top writers making writing challenges. Everyone has the same amount of time to create content for this challenge. These challenges can have certain limitations, no more than 1000 words, should be fantasy, set with a certain premise — basically anything.
While I would love to take credit for these ideas, they all go to the app called Gurushots. About the same time, I started writing on Medium, I started taking pictures. I wanted to get the same feedback on my pictures as I did on Medium. So, I searched, and I found the app called GuruShots. GuruShots is a rather simple app. You take pictures, upload them, and participate in certain challenges. The highest voted pictures will receive a reward or get the chance to join exhibitions all over the world.
The challenges should be open for everyone, and everyone can vote on the stories they like the most. Winners could get published in one of the Medium publications, receive a boost, or something different, dealers' choice. The idea would be to highlight the creative powers of the Medium community, and everyone would be able to participate. To make it more Medium, perhaps you would have to be a paying member?
An exposure feature could be implemented, the more you engage in other people’s work in the challenge, the more your story will be exposed. This could ensure that the participants engage with one another, and that you would actively have to use Medium to help ensure a higher rating. Again, this is an idea taken directly from GuruShots (notice the exposure bar in the picture above).
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I think these challenges could be a fun addition to an already great site. Imagine having the chance to dive into specific challenges, like write a 100-word story, write a comedy, your favourite piece and the like. To give a creative space to all the creative people here!
I considered writing this privately to Medium, but thought why not see if any other people would like this idea?
If you like this idea, let's try to get it to the Medium Staff to see if we can do something about it.
Good writing!
Do you like the idea of challenges?
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