u/ribenademon

A route I used to follow regularly and routinely but haven't touched for a few years absolutely destroyed me today. It was hot and there were a lot more fallen trees to climb over than usual but it turns out you do lose stamina! Shocking!

I've been focusing on much shorter distances and hills instead and indeed felt the benefit on uphill sections but my goodness I never thought this bullshit would ever happen to me.

Back to distance training...

Which one will I hit a $10 amount on first, this month? Will either get there?

To be clear, I have had several payments from Medium since I started last November but certainly not anything significant. I am currently on about $5 of partner program earnings. I have just had a new story become published in a publication.

I also like to click the free games on a gambling site and occasionally win 10 pence or so. As it is the World Cup, I've put some of those pennies on various football games and I am up to about £4.50 with other bets committed. Basically only betting on favourites and corners...

I think gambling might pay off faster!

Read! It will take less than five minutes! :)

You know who I am talking about:

"How to succeed on Medium!"
"One trick Medium writers need to transform their writing"
Etc.

A writer of this sort posted their stats the other day and the earnings while low individually per story admittedly added up to something more meaningful.

Are you all just reading each other's version of how to succeed and regurgitating it into another meta Medium post?

Is it a viable income stream given your location and other demands?

What I most want to know is: Do you enjoy this writing? Would you rather be writing novels/scripts/stories/poetry?

No hate/animosity -I just cannot imagine doing that sort of writing, it seems very dry and impersonal.

Come on, get it while it is hot!