Dear Medium algorithm,
The disappointment nobody talks about on getting no presentations and views on your Medium stories-
As a beginner, it’s very disappointing not getting enough views on your stories when you genuinely put so much effort into them. You publish them with the hope that atleast a few people will read them and connect with your thoughts.
You spend hours writing.
Sentence framing,
Grammar corrections,
Changing words again and again,
Deleting entire paragraphs,
Redo over redo,
and after all that, you finally publish your story feeling happy and hopeful.
And what happens?
Zero presentations by the Medium algorithm.
Personally, I have received zero presentations on my last three stories.
Not necessarily because they are bad or don’t deserve to be read, but maybe because the algorithm didn’t find them worthy enough. Or maybe my titles were not catchy enough to attract readers.
And honestly, it feels disheartening.
People usually talk about successful writers earning money and getting thousands of views, but nobody talks about the disappointment beginner writers feel when their hard work goes unnoticed.
No views.
No reads.
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No responses.
Just your story sitting there silently.
Sometimes you even start doubting yourself and your writing skills. You compare your stories with others and wonder what exactly you are lacking.
But slowly I realised that writing on Medium is not just about writing well.
It’s also about titles,
presentation,
consistency,
timing,
and understanding what readers actually click on.
A good story with a weak title may never even get opened.
And sadly, the algorithm does not see your efforts behind the screen. It only sees numbers and performance.
But I think almost every writer goes through this phase in the beginning.
The phase where nobody notices your work.
The phase where you feel invisible.
The phase where you still continue writing despite getting nothing in return.
And maybe that phase matters the most because that’s where your actual writing style develops.
When nobody is reading you,
yet you still choose to write anyway.
