I Published on Medium Every Day for a Month

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I used to plan my content weekly — as in, one blog post per week. I didn’t think I had enough ideas to be a daily writer. I didn’t think I could post anything interesting enough to be relevant on a daily basis.

And then I realized that I was already posting things on a daily basis on my Facebook page about trauma, relationships, gender, sexuality, activism, writing, and more… and it wouldn’t actually be that hard to polish my daily thoughts into a longer post. I decided to make November the month that I publish daily on Medium, and I wrote every day for a month.

I didn’t think I had enough ideas to be a daily writer.

Here’s what I learned

The topics that are easy to write and have the most meaningful message are the topics that are so close to my journey.

1. Curation is a map to your best content. I used to be so pleased that my once-a-week stories would be curated now and then. But when I started writing consistently, curation became a tool that helped me see which of my stories Medium editors liked better and would help promote for me. I published 30 stories in November, and 14 were curated.
2. Write what you know. Most…