These are the Medium days

How I came to be here on the larger than life, Medium platform

I have a couple of about me pages that look into the wider aspects of me, May More, and my life and writing. This story is just about my Medium journey so far…

To me, Medium looked very basic, and I couldn’t understand how people interacted. Comments didn’t seem so chatty to those on WordPress blogs — like mine. But being a supportive writer, I continued to sign in to show appreciation of the authors I liked.

Then, in early 2020 I was asked if I would contribute to a publication on Medium. My friend said I could use something from my blog. I did. It was this story.

During 2020 a lot changed. Suddenly we were locked up like caged animals. I believe this made some people more insular, and they lashed out at anyone who dared to think differently from them.

Others decided to join that tribe with a bit of popular virtue signaling. And very soon a group of bloggers, me being one of them, were canceled. That’s the best way to explain it. For a while, the tribe continued to take bites out of me and others, who were, and still are, individuals. It wasn’t pretty. But if you are a doer and a creator, you carry on. That’s what I did, and others I know. But I really felt now something was lacking in my blogging world.

At the same time, WordPress changed its editor. And what used to be a very straightforward word processor became riddled with complications — for me…

Before the fall-out, I had been commissioned by online adult-themed magazines to write…

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