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My 300th Medium Article!
JF Danskin’s weekly update, #16
Hey folks.
Guess what — this is my 300th Medium Article!
I’ve been posting for a bit over seven months now (I didn’t do a ‘7 months on Medium’ post, but you can see my half-year reflection here).
It feels like a good point to ask myself a question: What should I change, and what should stay the same?
Over recent weeks, I’ve been trying to follow a semi-regular schedule in terms of what I publish. I explain it in the link below. In short, a general idea of what to publish each day keeps things structured for me, and makes it easier to know what to write:
A simplified version is as follows:
- Mondays: writing prompts
- Tues–Thurs: fiction
- Fri: a piece on how to write
- Sat: a review of my week
- Sun: a curated list of recommendations
Getting to the point of my 300th article, it feels like the right time for a bit of a review of this plan.
Firstly, what is working? I really like doing the writing prompts. I’ll stick with a weekly list of those, though I might play with the format.
Other bits might need a re-think:
- The weekend review articles — while summarising my stories is useful, it feels like this is too frequent, and also takes up space on my schedule when I might otherwise like to write something new.
- Curated lists — I’m kinda running out of themes for the lists! I don’t want to push out a weekly list just for the sake of it — monthly might work better for me.
- Writing a craft article on a specific day (Friday)… This specific day that I was aiming for is hard to stick to, because when I submit to a publication, they often don’t give me a choice over when something’s published.
