Almost One Year With Medium & I’m Still Learning How To Use It.
I feel embarrassed about the fact that I still don’t know Medium too well. I know how to read & write stories, but all of the algorithm talks make me question myself as a writer. Am I good enough to be on this platform?
Let me start by talking about what I don’t know.
I don’t know how to reply to someone in a private message. Someone sent me a private message with tips on citing a section of my article, and I got frustrated because every time I clicked to write a reply it took me to my article rather than the message box. How would I write back? I had to play with the site more to get the hang of it.
I have a hard time highlighting parts I like in another writer’s article. I couldn’t in a section of an article leave a direct message to then clap for it afterward. When I respond to a section of an article I want to clap right after. Instead, when I highlight a part and respond, it kicks me off the article and then I can’t find which one it was.
I avoided this by saving the article I like so I can then go back and clap for it.
When to write
I tend to get an idea of what to write and jot it down right away before I forget. When I started on Medium I had a whole list of topics that I wanted to write about but then…
