Six Months on Medium

Is Medium worth my time? Here’s what I decided.

Linda Kowalchek/L.K. Smithe
Writers’ Blokke
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6 min readJul 7, 2021

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The past six months that I have spent writing on Medium have been challenging and not what I expected.

I read Medium voraciously for more than a year before I started to post here. I also took three classes about how to succeed on Medium before I published any stories. I wanted to do everything perfectly; I wanted to be a…

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Linda Kowalchek/L.K. Smithe
Writers’ Blokke

Writing about real life. Proponent of the passive voice and bringing “that” back. Member of the typewriter generation. Reach me at Linda.kowalchek@gmail.com