My Top Five Medium Stories in 2020
And what I learned about the world and my writing
I’ve been as absent from this platform as I’ve ever been.
My first published story went live on Medium in July 2019. Which feels simultaneously as if it were yesterday and a lifetime ago. I wrote it in response to a Human Parts prompt and it was immensely helpful for me as I worked through some lingering body image issues. It was the summer before I turned 30. I had just finalized my divorce. Work was steady but routine, and I needed a creative outlet, so I finally transitioned from Medium reader to Medium writer.
Since then, I’ve published nearly 100 pieces, with a respectable 55.3% curation rate. Of my last 15 stories, 13 were curated. And I admit, that was part of the fun. The game, if you will.
I liked the sense that my writing was deemed “high quality” by someone other than me, though I admit I felt disappointed when a piece I really loved failed to meet those opaque standards. And with the recent changes in curation disabling a writer’s ability to see which…
