My Vacation Will Be Ending Soon — I’ve spent my entire teaching career in the city. McDonald’s, Burger King, and all the drive-through fast-food restaurants are within two minutes drive. I could get anything I wanted at all hours of the day if I felt like driving and treating myself to a late-night snack. I took that…

Trying to build a writing business — My previous about me page gave a brief overview of how I started on Medium. I stumbled on this site. My objective was to promote my KDP Amazon workbooks and my TpT storefront. However, all that changed when I started writing on Medium. …

I don’t understand Medium — The month of September was stressful. I started pitching to magazine editors, writing articles for my Substack account, and completing two directives for my principal at school. The freelance writing was not a problem, but the directive from the principal had no rationale except the school paid a truckload of…

My ultimate goal is to create multiple revenue streams — The one factor I don’t see in Substack compared to Medium is reader and writer engagement. It’s important to engage readers and writers on Medium, but Substack is a newsletter. A writer’s income is dependent only on paid subscriptions. …

That’s why it’s there — I’ve been writing more about myself and opening up to my feelings lately. One of my articles I left off of the paywall went semi-viral. It gained over 10 hours of member read time in less than a week. My other article, The Ramblings of a Tired, also did well…

But I did some homework this time — After going zero for June, July, and August, I started pitching proposals again to magazines, publications, and any organization willing to pay for my writing. However, this time, I did a little homework on how to write query letters to editors. I’m finally taking the time to plan, write, and…

Earning Money on Medium — For the past ten months, I’ve been treating Medium as a job. It was my 2nd job. I knew I needed to put in the effort to have some income on Medium. Now that I no longer feel the pressure to break the Medium code only 6% have done, I…

I learned not to scale a business too quickly — I had an e-commerce business on Amazon and eBay before my tutoring business. I haven’t used my eBay account in a long time, but I needed to sell my Microsoft Surface Pro 7 and my iPad 8th generation because I just purchased a MacBook Air. After being away from eBay…