I don’t write for Medium to make money, I write because I’m a writer. I enjoy writing. I’m not a celebrity or anything, just an old fart whittling away the remaining moments of my life here with everyone else that enjoys reading and engaging with others.
There’s a social aspect to Medium that draws us here isn’t there? To hang out, read from our online friends, enjoy some poetry and stories and maybe learn a thing or two.
But when I look at my stats I see half of my engagement is simply not there. 200 people viewed my articles and a little more than half of them actually read them.
Since Medium reduces earnings when people view but decline to read, it literally reduces any money I might have earned for those articles on that day.
Here’s what that translates into for the newbies amongst us:
I ‘earned’ a grand total of $2.75 for the same period.
