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How Your Earnings Are Calculated On Medium
Write more profitably.
Understanding how Medium earnings are calculated would help you write and structure your stories in a way that enables you to reap as much reward as possible for your effort.
I know, a lot of people still find it surreal that they can make some money from stringing a couple of words together. Well, you should know that well-strung words are valuable. There have the power to inspire, entertain, uplift, and inform. By reading ‘mere’ words, people have been able to broaden their horizons, gain life-changing/time-saving perspectives, relieved their stress, found solutions to their problems, and so on. I can even go further to say written words have positively imparted, uplifted, and inspired more people than any other form of media dissemination out there. And as a matter of preference, people like me would rather read words than watch videos or listen to audios. There is something magical about written words.
Words Matter
Imagination is valuable. Perspective is valuable. Information is valuable. Any of these can be expressed in the form of written words.
Words = Value
It doesn’t matter if it took a writer a couple of minutes to put together an article, or if it took years. What makes anything valuable…