Going Viral By Accident As A New Writer

Spoiler: I didn’t follow the advice of any Medium writing guru.

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During my first four months of writing on Medium, I had scarcely reached 100 views a month. Each of my articles was averaging anywhere from 5–20 views, at most.

I was still writing and publishing a couple of times a week, whenever inspiration hit. But I wasn’t doing…