Stranger at Medium.com
It’s me, I’m the stranger
In 2018 I joined Medium with the hopes of sharing my journey as a new widow.
It wasn’t like a regular blog. In many ways, it was (is)better!
Sharing my experiences with grief was helpful and absolutely continues to be, but I don’t write here that much anymore.
This is largely because (and I hate to admit this) it’s just…confusing.
Don’t get me wrong — it’s easy to w r i t e here. Type it all in, add pics, links, etc. That part is pretty smooth and something I have always appreciated about Medium.
But all the different Publications. All the different submission guidelines…
It’s a lot.
I have submitted to one Publication on Medium and that was the About Me page, which was easy enough. (And a nice thing to have available here!)
But I write about topics that are all over the place. And I don’t really have many connections here.
Add in my ADHD and Executive Dysfunction, and all the different guidelines for different Publications start to make my head spin.
I have a blogger background (and mind) and inherently know that I am really just writing for me, so getting in tight with the various Medium Publications shouldn’t be my focus.
But I want the reads. I want the following. I mean, I’m an indie author — I’m my own publicist.
I was just in a pretty big writing contest that was by its own admission, a popularity contest.
I have like a dozen “fans.” Not enough to win any contests, by a long shot.
But raw-dogging it here as a rogue writer just pinging around like a wayward atom doesn’t seem to be the way to muster a respectable following.
Is there, like, a Jitterbug version of something like this for GenXers who are tech-savvy but not quite savvy enough for all of this?
If there is, please send me an invite.
We can talk about mammograms, colonoscopies, and that time we hooked up with a hair-band drummer.
Until then, I will press on. But I probably won’t spend too much time trying to submit to Medium Publications. I have to save my rejection sensitivity for the books I am endeavoring to publish.
That and I’m still lost on all of it.
You know what they say about old dogs and new tricks.
If you like my writing, be it about widowhood or anything else, feel free to follow, subscribe or whatever else we do here to show support, these days. This is a free article, not published with the Medium Partner Program, so if you like my work, I happily accept tea or coffee.
