I’ve been writing on Medium and Substack for a while now. There is quite a lot of overlap in terms of content, but they are slightly different. Especially in the tone I use – Substack is a bit more conversational, while for Medium I tend to go full journalist. I have bundled both under the…
I don’t use ChatGPT for writing, as the output is a bit bland. You can probably tell by my garbled syntax. Writing is also my livelihood, and I am mildly resentful of letting an AI do it because then I would just be doing data input. Plus, it scrapes info from people who want to…
I started blogging and this website for a few reasons. One was that it was cathartic. I write for a variety of clients and they all require different tones, writing styles and some even have really specific style guides. All of which is totally fine and, at times, kind of helpful. But it does feel…
Writing about going viral on Medium isn’t all just a big gloat, I swear. Not entirely, anyway. It is to encourage anyone who might be on Medium that one random unpredictable story can suddenly go viral. There is no way to predict this, so the only thing you can do is just keep plugging away….
I recently wrote about which was better – Medium or Fiverr. My opinions have changed recently but partly that is because I am idle but also because the income from both has suddenly flipped. What happened? My gig was doing well on Fiverr and I was posting the odd thing on Medium. On Fiverr, I…
Since I bravely stepped out into writing purely freelance, and not ‘for the man’, I’ve been doing a few side hustle jobs on Fiverr and Medium. This is mostly because ‘the man’ fired me thanks to Covid but I was freelancing on the side anyway. Both are very different websites and do things in a…
I have decided to write for Medium. It can’t hurt. I was a member anyway and decided to give it a bash after realising that The Word of Ward has been going since April 2009. Which is a bugger of a long time. This website has always been a combination of attention seeking and a…