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What 21 Curations Taught Me About Writing
Hint: It’s not an easy lesson.
I’ve been writing on Medium for about four months now. I’ve been fortunate enough to meet amazing writers, read incredible stories, and get published in both large and small publications. It’s an incredible ride so far. But, being the perfectionist over-ambitious writer that I am, Once I experienced curation once — I wanted to experience it more and more until it consumed everything.
As of writing this article, I’ve been curated 21 times on Medium. I have no words to describe what it means to me that words I wrote continue to be read every day by different people around the world. Instead, I say thank you to the curators. Their job is an enormous undertaking. Reviewing thousands of articles every day is intense. They are more often rejecting articles than curating them — articles just like mine.
Somewhere along the way, curation became the holy grail for me as a Medium writer. I wanted to be featured and read, and yes, I also wanted to earn a few dollars. Anyone who reads my articles knows I’m dealing with debt and I can’t be picky about the financial opportunities that arise along the way.
I wrote about my writing being affected by not being curated or getting bad reviews a few days ago. I think my biggest fear is that I saw somewhere that the…
