I had to go back and see what this was all about. You’re taking offence at something I wrote to someone else about someone else (not you)?
I happen to agree with her. If you’re thinking of the publication that I’m thinking of, I was blocked after calling out the owner and making a complete idiot of him. He isn’t what he says he is, writes very badly, and the entire magazine is just a money-making operation for him. There are editors there that can’t put together a grammatical sentence. Anyone who is a professional writer would immediately recognize that.
That said, I wanted to see where you are coming from, so went back to read some of your pieces.
You wrote a piece entitled “Three mistakes you should avoid to get the last Medium bonus. Um. The people who win the big bucks win them simply on having earned the most. The top 1000 people who earned the most money (provided they have written two articles) win the $500. None of what you say has relevance. I’ve won all three so far.
You also say, “There’s one thing I will always rise against, and that’s being judgemental toward the work of others.”
I absolutely will and do have something to say about people who give other people writing advice and they can’t write to save their lives. They are misleading other people, and the truth of the matter is that in America, only .01% of people have ever been published. Very, very few people have what it takes to become successful writers. I do not count people who are ‘success gurus’ as writers. They are copywriters selling a product.
https://medium.com/born-to-write/why-i-muted-all-writing-publications-yesterday-52edcb3acda0
You also say, “Hence, I ask of you; please stay away from “stories that exist mainly to target, shame, intimidate, or harass identified, identifiable, or anonymous people.” This is not the Medium way, and we shouldn’t promote or tolerate any narrative that focuses on “intolerance or prejudice against individuals or groups.” I’m reading more and more deleterious stories towards fellow writers written covertly without any positive criticism whatsoever.”
Medium is being destroyed by the plethora of wannabes who are writing garbage. I’ve been on more writing platforms than I can count (since 1994), and I’ve watched all of them being destroyed by either black hat SEO, affiliate marketing, or people gaming the system. Medium was created by Ev Williams in order to find a way of paying for publishing without advertising (because advertising perverts the truth), and he focused on people who were thinkers – not garbage mongerers.
Medium is not a ‘feel good platform’ to ‘grow people.’ It is a serious platform for excellent writers, and it was hijacked a few years ago by the same bloody bastards who have corrupted every other writing platform I have been on. Let me repeat – they eventually destroy the platform. You know why Ev Villiams removed the claps from the system and implemented an algorithm that checked to see if a piece was read? To get rid of the people who were gaming the system. All those people who were gaming the system? Those are the one’s who suddenly lost money big time.
You say “If you read my article, you know how I started the paragraph by clearly stating how we have thousands of articles saying the same on Medium.” I have no idea what articles you are talking about. Your response was on something I wrote on Sherry McQuinn’s article. I wasn’t responding to you, and I certainly don’t know what articles you are writing about. I do not read self-help and ‘how to write’ articles.
You say “The law of karma states that for every action, there is a corresponding effect; hence you can’t break the ripple, but you can strive to charge what’s coming your way positively.” There is no such thing as the law of Karma which implies that good will be rewarded and bad punished. That simply isn’t true. Karma is not cause and effect. Twenty percent of CEOs are psychopaths. They don’t suffer in the least. Donald Trump is not suffering in the least from all the havoc he has caused – nor is Boris Johnson.
None of this has anything to do with the fact that there are a lot of people on Medium who are semiliterate giving advice to other people who are semiliterate, and they are being applauded as if they have said something good.
1. Write every day
2. Applaud other writers
For the record, the world’s best writers all have genius IQ, are highly educated, and are very, very talented. They weren’t taught to write. They were born knowing how to. It’s not something you can teach.
