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Don’t ‘Diworsify’ Your Writing Portfolio
How chasing platforms ruined my Medium momentum — and ‘focus investing’ saved my creative dopamine.
Month three on Medium. Like newlyweds still in the honeymoon phase, I’m currently celebrating my first milestone after finally breaking through the paywall. My account is growing, some articles are hitting the trending page, and the algorithm feels friendlier than ever.
But yesterday, a single text from my best friend almost threw everything off track. Don’t get me wrong, she didn’t mean any harm. I know the opportunity works for her, and she genuinely wanted me to maintain my momentum.
Yet, somehow, that text felt like an invitation to flirt — a temptation to look at a highly attractive third party offering a bag full of privileges and potential success. My heart actually skipped a beat. Was the universe sending this my way?
“Have you heard? Platform A just launched something huge. They built an analytics site that reviews and improves novel manuscripts. I tried it and it’s incredible.”
Yep, there it was — the classic temptation. A writing platform I used to use just dropped a new feature promising to monetize my old, abandoned novel drafts. Look, as a writer, of course you want all your drafts to be…
