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Medium Forced Me To Be A Better Writer By Doing These Things
How a terrible writer became decent at their craft.
I got off a call yesterday from my accountability partner and one big thing that stuck out to me was something he said near the end:
“Seriously though, you’ve become an amazing writer.”
Not to inflate my own ego, but I believe it. He’s been with me from the very start and has seen some of the work that I’ve produced. I’ve also looked back and have seen the unusual pieces that I’ve created and the content I create today.
Some of that growth has stemmed from my own personal discovery of writing. A desire to improve and take my writing career seriously.
But if I had to guess where most of my growth stems from I have to point to the platform that I’m writing this on: Medium.
Over the nearly 2 years I’ve been on this platform, Medium has forced me to be critical of my writing and bring it up from the scattered mess that it was. It’s taught me to weave stories and to speak in a way that inspires and emboldens myself as I write. It’s given me a deeper personal meaning while writing and it’s also encouraged me to do my own research and back up claims.
