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It Took Me 8 Years of Writing to Get Here
Don’t give up doing what helps you heal.
I’ve reached a pretty cool milestone today and wanted to share it.
5,000 followers on Medium. Sheesh. I started writing in early 2017. No audience or clear strategy, no idea what I was doing, just a deep need to get the thoughts out of my head and into the world.
Writing has helped me heal from so many things.
It isn’t easy to keep doing this with so many other things to do. And I’ve watched people gain 5,000+ followers in a single weekend. Some of them deserved it, and some of them gamed the system. It’s taken me much longer to achieve that. Eight years.
That is:
📆 96 months
🧔♀️ 1.7 followers a day
✍️ Around 487 pieces written
👨👩👧👦 Missed opportunities with my family
☕ Way too much caffeine and late nights
🫣 Three hundred posts I wanted to delete
🤝 And one person at a time, including many of you, who decided to click “Follow”
None of this happened fast, and most of it didn’t happen easily, but it happened. I didn’t “blow up”, I showed up to…
