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How I Made My First Penny on Medium
3 min readNov 12, 2019
I’d love to start this by saying this title is a joke, and I really meant “my first hundred dollars!”
But I can’t. The first month I published anything on Medium, I made one cent.
That’s not very much.
Obviously! I did it by baring my soul and writing my heart out about things that mattered, at least to me. It mattered to one other person, and I’m grateful. It encouraged me to know someone cared enough about my words to clap for me!
Money is not my goal, but it sure would be nice to make some!
A penny is a penny, and I’m no quitter, so I kept writing (and reading the greats, like Shaunta Grimes and Benjamin Hardy, PhD), and hoping that the process would lead to a little bit more to show for all my hard work!
I write because I have something to say.
Here are a couple of the things I’ve written.
